{"product_id":"9780500772294","title":"The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn entirely new perspective on current scaremongering about China’s global ambitions, and on the Western media’s ignorance of Chinese culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA hundred years ago, a character who was to enter the bloodstream of 20th-century popular culture made his first appearance in the world of literature. In his day he became as well known as Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes: he was the evil genius called Dr. Fu Manchu, described at the beginning of the first story in which he appeared as “the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy did the idea that the Chinese were a threat to Western civilization develop at precisely the time when China was in chaos, divided against itself, the victim of successive famines and utterly incapable of being a “peril” to anyone even if it had wanted to be? Even the author of the Dr. Fu Manchu novels, Sax Rohmer, acknowledged that China, “as a nation possess that elusive thing, poise.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd what do the Chinese themselves make of all this? Is it any wonder that they remember what we have carelessly forgotten–the opium wars; the “unfair treaties” that ceded Hong Kong and the New Territories; and the stereotyping of Chinese people in allegedly factual studies?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere cultural historian Christopher Frayling takes us to the heart of popular culture in the music hall, pulp literature, and the mass-market press, and shows how film amplifies our assumptions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165581623536,"sku":"9780500772294","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780500772294_p0.jpg?v=1769895173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780500772294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}