Yellow Peril

For other uses, seeYellow Peril (disambiguation).

The Yellow Terror in all His Glory,an 1899 editorial cartoon depicting a Chinese man standing over a fallen white woman. The Chinese man represents the anti-colonialBoxer movementand the woman represents Christian missionaries attacked by Boxers during theBoxer Rebellion.

TheYellow Peril(also theYellow Terror,theYellow Menace,and theYellow Specter) is aracistcolor metaphorthat depicts the peoples ofEastandSoutheast Asiaas an existential danger to theWestern world.

The concept of the Yellow Peril derives from a "core imagery of apes, lesser men, primitives, children, madmen, and beings who possessed special powers",which developed during the 19th century as Western imperialist expansion adduced East Asians as the Yellow Peril.In the late 19th century, the Russian sociologist Jacques Novikow coined the term in the essay "Le Péril Jaune" ( "The Yellow Peril", 1897), which KaiserWilhelm II(r. 1888–1918) used to encourage the European empires to invade, conquer, and colonize China.To that end, using the Yellow Peril ideology, the Kaiser portrayed the Japanese and the Asian victory against the Russians in theRusso-Japanese War(1904–1905) as an Asian racial threat to white Western Europe, and also exposes China and Japan as an alliance toconquer, subjugate, and enslavethe Western world.

ThesinologistWing-Fai Leung explained the origins of the term and the racialist ideology: "The phraseyellow peril(sometimesyellow terrororyellow specter)... blends Western anxieties about sex, racist fears of the alien Other, and theSpenglerianbelief that the West will become outnumbered and enslaved by the East. "The academic Gina Marchetti identified the psycho-cultural fear of East Asians as "rooted in medieval fears ofGenghis Khanand theMongol invasions of Europe[1236–1291], the Yellow Peril combines racist terror of alien cultures, sexual anxieties, and the belief that the West will be overpowered and enveloped, by the irresistible, dark, occult forces of the East ";hence, to oppose Japanese imperial militarism, the West expanded the Yellow Peril ideology to include the Japanese people. Moreover, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, writers developed the Yellow Perilliterary toposinto codified, racialist motifs of narration, especially in stories and novels ofethnic conflictin the genres ofinvasion literature,adventure fiction,andscience fiction.

Origins

The racist and cultural stereotypes of the Yellow Peril originated in the late 19th century, when Chinese workers (people of different skin-color and physiognomy, language and culture) legally immigrated to Australia, Canada, the U.S., and New Zealand, where their work ethic inadvertently provoked a racist backlash against Chinese communities, for agreeing to work for lower wages than did the local white populations. In 1870, the FrenchOrientalistand historianErnest Renanwarned Europeans of Eastern danger to the Western world; yet Renan had meant theRussian Empire(1721–1917), a country and nation whom the West perceived as more Asiatic than European.

Imperial Germany

Kaiser Wilhelm IIused the allegorical lithographPeoples of Europe, Guard Your Most Sacred Possessions(1895), byHermann Knackfuss,to promote Yellow Peril ideology as geopolitical justification for European colonialism in China.

Since 1870, the Yellow Peril ideology gaveconcrete formto the anti-East Asian racism of Europe and North America.In central Europe, the Orientalist and diplomatMax von Brandtadvised Kaiser Wilhelm II that Imperial Germany had colonial interests to pursue in China.Hence, the Kaiser used the phrasedie Gelbe Gefahr(The Yellow Peril) to specifically encourage Imperial German interests and justify European colonialism in China.

In 1895, Germany, France, and Russia staged theTriple Interventionto theTreaty of Shimonoseki(17 April 1895), which concluded theFirst Sino-Japanese War(1894–1895), in order to compelImperial Japanto surrender their Chinese colonies to the Europeans; that geopolitical gambit became an underlying cause of theRusso-Japanese War(1904–05).The Kaiser justified the Triple Intervention to the Japanese empire withracialistcalls-to-arms against nonexistent geopolitical dangers of the yellow race against the white race of Western Europe.

To justify Europeancultural hegemony,the Kaiser used the allegorical lithographPeoples of Europe, Guard Your Most Sacred Possessions(1895), byHermann Knackfuss,to communicate his geopolitics to other European monarchs. The lithograph depicts Germany as the leader of Europe,personified as a "prehistoric warrior-goddesses being led by the Archangel Michael against the 'yellow peril' from the East", which is represented by "dark cloud of smoke [upon] which rests an eerily calmBuddha,wreathed in flame".Politically, the Knackfuss lithograph allowed Kaiser Wilhelm II to believe he prophesied the imminentrace warthat would decide globalhegemonyin the 20th century.

United States

In 1854, as editor of theNew-York Tribune,Horace Greeleypublished "Chinese Immigration to California" an editorial opinion supporting the popular demand for the exclusion of Chinese workers and people from California. Without using the term "yellow peril," Greeley compared the arrivingcooliesto the African slaves who survived theMiddle Passage.He praised the few Christians among the arriving Chinese and continued:

But of the remainder, what can be said? They are for the most part an industrious people, forbearing and patient of injury, quiet and peaceable in their habits; say this and you have said all good that can be said of them. They are uncivilized, unclean, and filthy beyond all conception, without any of the higher domestic or social relations; lustful and sensual in their dispositions; every female is a prostitute of the basest order; the first words of English that they learn are terms of obscenity or profanity, and beyond this they care to learn no more.

— New York Daily Tribune, Chinese Immigration to California, 29 September 1854, p. 4.

In 1870s California, despite theBurlingame Treaty(1868) allowing legal migration of unskilled laborers from China, the native white working-class demanded that the U.S. government cease the immigration of "filthy yellow hordes" of Chinese people who took jobs from native-born white-Americans, especially during aneconomic depression.

In Los Angeles, Yellow Peril racism provoked theChinese massacre of 1871,wherein 500 white menlynched20 Chinese men in the Chinatown ghetto. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, the leader of theWorkingmen's Party of California,thedemagogueDenis Kearney,successfully applied Yellow Peril ideology to his politics against the press, capitalists, politicians, and Chinese workers,and concluded his speeches with the epilogue: "and whatever happens, the Chinese must go!"The Chinese people also were specifically subjected to moralistic panics about their use of opium, and how their use made opium popular among white people.As in the case of Irish-Catholic immigrants, the popular press misrepresented Asian peoples as culturally subversive, whose way of life would diminish republicanism in the U.S.; hence, racist political pressure compelled the U.S. government to legislate theChinese Exclusion Act(1882), which remained the effective immigration-law until 1943.The act was the first U.S. immigration law to target a specific ethnicity or nationality.Moreover, following the example of Kaiser Wilhelm II's use of the term in 1895, the popular press in the U.S. adopted the phrase "yellow peril" to identify Japan as a military threat, and to describe the many emigrants from Asia.

Imperial Russia

"The yellow peril",Puckcartoon, 1905

In the late 19th century, with theTreaty of Saint Petersburg,theQing dynasty(1644–1912) China recovered the eastern portion of theIli Riverbasin (Zhetysu), which Russia had occupied for a decade, since theDungan Revolt.In that time, themass communicationsmediaof the West misrepresented China as an ascendant military power, and applied Yellow Peril ideology to evoke racist fears that China would conquer Western colonies, such as Australia.

Imperial Russian writers, notablysymbolists,expressed fears of a "second Tatar yoke" or a "Mongolian wave" following the lines of "Yellow Peril".Vladimir Solovyovcombined Japan and China into supposed "Pan-Mongolians" who would conquer Russia and Europe.A similar idea and fear was expressed byDmitry MerezhkovskiiinZheltolitsye pozitivisty( "Yellow-Faced Positivists" ) in 1895 andGriadushchii Kham( "The Coming Boor" ) in 1906.

The works of explorerVladimir K. Arsenevalso illustrated the ideology of Yellow Peril in Tsarist Russia. The fear continued into the Soviet era where it contributed to theSoviet internal deportation of Koreans.In a 1928 report to theDalkrai Bureau,Arsenev stated "Our colonization is a type of weak wedge on the edge of the primordial land of the yellow peoples." In the earlier 1914 monographThe Chinese in the Ussuri Region,Arsenev characterized people of three East Asian nationalities (Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese) as a singular 'yellow peril', criticizing immigration to Russia and presenting theUssuriregion as a buffer against "onslaught".

Canada

TheChinese head taxwas a fixed fee charged to eachChineseperson enteringCanada.Thehead taxwas first levied after theCanadian parliamentpassed theChinese Immigration Act of 1885and was meant to discourage Chinese people from entering Canada after the completion of theCanadian Pacific Railway(CPR). The tax was abolished by theChinese Immigration Act of 1923,which outright prevented all Chinese immigration except for that of business people, clergy, educators, students, and some others.

Boxer Rebellion

Main article:Boxer Rebellion

In 1900, the anticolonialBoxer Rebellion(August 1899 – September 1901) reinforced the racist stereotypes of East Asians as a Yellow Peril to white people. The Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists (called the Boxers in the West) was an anticolonial martial arts organization who blamed the problems of China on the presence of Western colonies in China proper. The Boxers sought to save China by killing Westerners in China and Chinese Christians or Westernized people.In the early summer of 1900, PrinceZaiyiallowed the Boxers into Beijing to kill Westerners and Chinese Christians in siege to the foreign legations.Afterward, Qing Commander-in-ChiefRongluandYikuang(Prince Qing), resisted and expelled the Boxers from Beijing after days of fighting.

Western perception

Most of the victims of the Boxer Rebellion were Chinese Christians, but the massacres of Chinese people were of no interest to the Western world, which demanded Asian blood to avenge the Westerners in China killed by the Boxers.In response, theUnited Kingdom,the United States, and Imperial Japan, Imperial France, Imperial Russia, and Imperial Germany, Austria–Hungary and Italy formed theEight-Nation Allianceand dispatched an international military expeditionary force to end theSiege of the International Legationsin Beijing.

Yellow Peril xenophobia arose from the armed revolt of the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists (the Boxers) to expel all Westerners from China, during theBoxer Rebellion(August 1899 – September 1901)

The Russian press presented the Boxer Rebellion in racialist and religious terms as a cultural war between White Holy Russia and Yellow Pagan China. The press further supported the Yellow Peril apocalypse with quotations from the Sinophobic poems of the philosopherVladimir Solovyov.Likewise, in the press, the aristocracy demanded action against the Asian threat. PrinceSergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoyurged Imperial Russia and other European monarchies to jointly partition China and to end the Yellow Peril to Christendom.Hence, on 3 July 1900, in response to the Boxer Rebellion, Russia expelled the Chinese community (5,000 people) fromBlagoveshchensk.From 4 to 8 July, the Tsarist police, Cossack cavalry, and local vigilantes killed thousands of Chinese people at the Amur River.

In the Western world, news of Boxer atrocities against Westerners in China provoked Yellow Peril racism in Europe and North America, where the Chinese' rebellion was perceived as arace warbetween the yellow race and the white race. In that vein,The Economistmagazine warned in 1905:

The history of the Boxer movement contains abundant warnings, as to the necessity of an attitude of constant vigilance, on the part of the European Powers, when there are any symptoms that a wave of nationalism is about to sweep over the Celestial Empire.

Sixty-one years later, in 1967, during theCultural Revolution,Red Guardsshouting "Shā!, Shā!, Shā!" (English:Kill!, Kill!, Kill! ") attacked the British embassy and beat the diplomats. A diplomat remarked that the Boxers had used the same chant.

Colonial vengeance

Kaiser Wilhelm II used Yellow Peril ideology as geopolitical justification for German and European imperialism in China.

China: The Cake of Kings and... of Emperors:An angryMandarinwatchesQueen Victoria(Britain), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany),Tsar Nicholas II(Russia),Marianne(France), andEmperor Meiji(Japan) discuss their partitioning of China.

On 27 July 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave the racistHunnenrede(Hun speech) exhorting his soldiers to barbarism and that Imperial German soldiers depart Europe for China and suppress the Boxer Rebellion by acting like "Huns" andcommitting atrocitiesagainst the Chinese (Boxer and civilian):

When you come before the enemy, you must defeat him, pardon will not be given, prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands will fall to your sword! Just as a thousand years ago the Huns, under their King Attila, made a name for themselves with their ferocity, which tradition still recalls; so may the name of Germany become known in China in such a way that no Chinaman will ever dare look a German in the eye, even with a squint!

Fearful of harm to the public image of Imperial Germany, theAuswärtiges Amt(Foreign Office) published a redacted version of the Hun Speech that was expurgated of the exhortation to racist barbarism. Annoyed by Foreign Office censorship, the Kaiser published the unexpurgated Hun Speech, which "evoked images of a Crusade and considered the current crisis [the Boxer Rebellion] to amount to a war between Occident and Orient." However, that "elaborate accompanying music, and the new ideology of the Yellow Peril stood in no relation to the actual possibilities and results" of geopolitical policy based upon racist misperception.

Exhortation to barbarism

The Kaiser ordered the expedition-commander, Field MarshalAlfred von Waldersee,to behave barbarously because the Chinese were "by nature, cowardly, like a dog, but also deceitful".In that time, the Kaiser's best friend,Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg,wrote to another friend that the Kaiser wanted to raze Beijing and kill the populace to avenge the murder of BaronClemens von Ketteler,Imperial Germany's minister to China.Only the Eight-Nation Alliance's refusal of barbarism to resolve the siege of the legations savedthe Chinese populace of Beijing from the massacre recommended by Imperial Germany.In August 1900, an international military force of Russian, Japanese, British, French, and American soldiers captured Beijing before the German force had arrived at the city.

Praxis of barbarism

The eight-nation alliance sacked Beijing in vengeance for the Boxer Rebellion; the magnitude of the rape, pillaging and burning indicated "a sense that the Chinese were less than human" to the Western powers.About the sacking of the city, an Australian in China stated: "The future of the Chinese is a fearful problem. Look at the frightful sights one sees in the streets of Peking... See the filthy, tattered rags they wrap around them. Smell them as they pass. Hear of their nameless immorality. Witness their shameless indecency, and picture them among your own people—Ugh! It makes you shudder! "

British admiralRoger Keyesrecalled: "Every Chinaman... was treated as a Boxer, by the Russian and French troops, and the slaughter of men, women, and children, in retaliation, was revolting ".The American missionaryLuella Minerreported that "the conduct of the Russian soldiers isatrocious,the French are not much better, and the Japanese are looting and burning without mercy. Women and girls, by the hundreds, have committed suicide to escape a worse fate at the hands of Russian and Japanese brutes. "

From contemporary Western observers, German, Russian, and Japanese troops received the greatest criticism for their ruthlessness and willingness to wantonly execute Chinese of all ages and backgrounds, sometimes by burning and killing entire village populations.The Americans and British paid GeneralYuan Shikaiand his army (theRight Division) to help the Eight Nation Alliance suppress the Boxers. Yuan's forces killed tens of thousands of people in their anti-Boxer campaign inZhili ProvinceandShandongafter the Alliance captured Beijing.The British journalist George Lynch said that "there are things that I must not write, and that may not be printed in England, which would seem to show that this Western civilization of ours is merely a veneer over savagery".

The expedition of German field marshal Waldersee arrived in China on 27 September 1900, after the military defeat of the Boxer Rebellion by the Eight-Nation Alliance, yet he launched 75 punitive raids into northern China to search for and destroy the remaining Boxers. The German soldiers killed more peasants than Boxer guerrillas because by that time, the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists (the Boxers) had posed no threat.On 19 November 1900, at theReichstag,the German Social Democrat politicianAugust Bebelcriticized the Kaiser's attack upon China as shameful to Germany:

No, this is no crusade, no holy war; it is a very ordinary war of conquest... A campaign of revenge as barbaric as has never been seen in the last centuries, and not often at all in History... not even with the Huns, not even with the Vandals... That is not a match for what the German and other troops of foreign powers, together with the Japanese troops, have done in China.

Cultural fear

InThe Foundations of the Nineteenth Century(1899),Houston Stewart Chamberlainprovided racialist ideology forNazi Germany(1933–1945).

The political praxis of Yellow Peril racism calls for apolitical racial unity among the White peoples of the world. To resolve a contemporary problem (economic, social, political) the racialist politician calls for White unity against the nonwhiteOtherwho threatens Western civilization from distant Asia. Despite the Western powers' military defeat of the anticolonial Boxer Rebellion, Yellow Peril fear of Chinese nationalism became a cultural factor among white people: That "the Chinese race" mean to invade, vanquish, and subjugate Christian civilization in the Western world.

In July 1900, theVölkischmovementintellectualHouston Stewart Chamberlain,the "Evangelist of Race", gave his racialist perspective of the cultural meaning of theBoer War(1899–1902) in relation to the cultural meaning of the Boxer Rebellion: "One thing I can clearly see, that is, that it is criminal for Englishmen and Dutchmen to go on murdering each other, for all sorts of sophisticated reasons, while the Great Yellow Danger overshadows us white men, and threatens destruction."In the bookThe Foundations of the Nineteenth Century(1899), Chamberlain provided the racist ideology forPan-Germanismand theVölkischmovements of the early 20th century, which greatly influenced theracial policy of Nazi Germany.

Racial annihilation

The Austrian philosopherChristian von Ehrenfelswas fixated with the fear of the "Yellow Peril", and believed that Asian peoples were a deadly threat to European civilization. Ehrenfels wrote if nothing was done to stop the rise of China, that "if there is no change in current practice, this will lead to the annihilation of the white race by the yellow race". In response to this perceived threat, he wrote several radical proposals.

The Darwinian threat

The Yellow Perilracialismof von Ehrenfels proposed that the Western world and the Eastern world were in aDarwinian racial strugglefor domination of the planet, which the yellow race was winning.That the Chinese were an inferior race of people whoseOriental culturelacked "all potentialities... determination, initiative, productivity, invention, and organizational talent "supposedly innate to the white cultures of the West.Nonetheless, despite havingdehumanizedthe Chinese into anessentialist stereotypeof physically listless and mindless Asians, von Ehrenfels's culturalcognitive dissonanceallowed praising Japan as a first-rateimperial military powerwhose inevitable conquest of continental China would produceimproved breedsof Chinese people. That the Japanese' selective breeding with "genetically superior" Chinese women would engender a race of "healthy, sly, cunning coolies", because the Chinese are virtuosi of sexual reproduction.The gist of von Ehrenfels'snihilisticracism was that Asian conquest of the West equaled white racial annihilation; Continental Europe subjugated by a genetically superior Sino–Japanese army consequent to a race war that the Western world would fail to thwart or win.

Polygamous patriarchy

To resolve the population imbalance between the Eastern and the West in favor of White people, von Ehrenfels proposed radical changes to themores(socialandsexualnorms) of the Christian West. Eliminatingmonogamyas a hindrance to globalwhite supremacy,for limiting a genetically superior White man to father children with only one woman; becausepolygamygives the yellow race greater reproductive advantage, for permitting a genetically superior Asian man to father children with many women.Therefore, thestatewould control human sexuality through polygamy, to ensure the continual procreation of genetically and numerically superior populations of White people.

In such a patriarchal society, only high-status white men of known genetic reliability would have the legal right to reproduce, with the number of reproductive wives he can afford, and so ensure that only the "social winners" reproduce, within their racial caste.Despite such radicalsocial engineeringof men's sexual behavior, white women remained monogamous by law; their lives dedicated to the breeding functions of wife and mother.The fertile women would reside and live their daily lives in communal barracks, where they collectively rear their many children. To fulfill her reproductive obligations to the state, each woman is assigned a husband only for reproductive sexual intercourse.Ehrenfels's social engineering for worldwide white supremacy eliminatesromantic love(marriage) from sexual intercourse, and thus reduces man–woman sexual relations to a transaction of mechanistic reproduction.

Race war

To end what he perceived as the threat of the Yellow Peril to the Western world, von Ehrenfels proposedwhite racial unityamong the nations of the West, in order to jointly prosecute apreemptive warofethnic conflictsto conquer Asia, before it became militarily infeasible. Then establish a worldwide racial hierarchy organized as an hereditarycaste system,headed by thewhite racein each conquered country of Asia.That anoligarchyof theAryan white peoplewould form, populate, and lead the racial castes of theruling class,the military forces, and theintelligentsia;and that in each conquered country, the Yellow and the Black races would beslaves,theeconomic baseof the worldwide racial hierarchy.

The Aryan society that von Ehrenfels proposed in the early 20th century, would be in the far future of the Western world, realized after defeating the Yellow Peril and the other races for control of the Earth, because "the Aryan will only respond to the imperative of sexual reform when the waves of the Mongolian tide are lapping around his neck".As a racialist, von Ehrenfels characterized the Japanese military victory in theRusso-Japanese War(1905) as an Asian victory against the white peoples of the Christian West, a cultural failure which indicated "the absolute necessity of a radical, sexual reform for the continued existence of the Western races of man... [The matter of White racial survival] has been raised from the level of discussion to the level of ascientificallyproven fact ".

Xenophobia and racism

Germany and Russia

From 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm used Yellow Peril ideology to portray Imperial Germany as defender of the West against conquest from the East.In pursuingWeltpolitikpolicies meant to establish Germany as the dominant empire, the Kaiser manipulated his own government officials, public opinion, and other monarchs.In a letter to TsarNicholas II of Russia,the Kaiser said: "It is clearly the great task of the future for Russia to cultivate the Asian continent, and defend Europe from the inroads of the Great Yellow Race".InThe Bloody White Baron(2009), the historian James Palmer explains the 19th-century socio-cultural background from which Yellow Peril ideology originated and flourished:

The 1890s had spawned in the West the specter of the "Yellow Peril", the rise to world dominance of the Asian peoples. The evidence cited was Asian population growth, immigration to the West (America and Australia in particular), and increased Chinese settlement along the Russian border. These demographic and political fears were accompanied by a vague and ominous dread of the mysterious powers supposedly possessed by the initiates of Eastern religions. There is a striking German picture of the 1890s, depicting the dream that inspired Kaiser Wilhelm II to coin the term "Yellow Peril", that shows the union of these ideas. It depicts the nations of Europe, personified as heroic, but vulnerable, female figures guarded by the Archangel Michael, gazing apprehensively towards a dark cloud of smoke in the East, in which rests an eerily calm Buddha, wreathed in flame...
Combined with this was a sense of the slow sinking of theAbendland,the "Evening Land" of the West. This would be put most powerfully, by thinkers such as Oswald Spengler inThe Decline of the West(1918) and the Prussian philosopherMoeller van den Bruck,a Russophone obsessed with the coming rise of the East. Both called for Germany to join the "young nations" of Asia through the adoption of such supposedly Asiatic practices as collectivism, "inner barbarism", and despotic leadership. The identification of Russia with Asia would eventually overwhelm such sympathies, instead leading to a more-or-less straightforward association of Germany with the values of "The West", against the "Asiatic barbarism" of Russia. That was most obvious during theNazi era[1933–1945], when virtually every piece of anti–Russian propaganda talked of the "Asiatic millions" or "Mongolian hordes", which threatened to over-run Europe, but the identification of the Russians as Asian, especially asMongolian,continued well into theCold Warera [1917–1991].

The European collective memory of the Yellow Peril includes the Mongols' display of the severed head of DukeHenry II of Silesia,in Legnica.

As his cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm knew that Tsar Nicholas shared his anti-Asian racism and believed he could persuade the Tsar to abrogate theFranco-Russian Alliance(1894) and then to form a German–Russian alliance against Britain.In manipulative pursuit of Imperial GermanWeltpolitik"Wilhelm II's deliberate use of the 'yellow peril' slogan was more than a personal idiosyncrasy, and fitted into the general pattern of German foreign policy under his reign, i.e. to encourage Russia's Far Eastern adventures, and later to sow discord, between the United States and Japan. Not the substance, but only the form, of Wilhelm II's 'yellow peril' propaganda disturbed the official policy of the Wilhelmstrasse."

Mongols in Europe

In the 19th century, the racial and cultural stereotypes of Yellow Peril ideology colored German perceptions of Russia as a nation more Asiatic that European.The European folk memory of the 13th-centuryMongol invasion of Europemade the wordMongola cultural synonym for the "Asian culture of cruelty and insatiable appetite for conquest", which was especially personified byGenghis Khan,leader of theOrda,the Mongol Horde.

Despite that justifying historical background, Yellow Peril racism was not universally accepted in the societies of Europe. French intellectualAnatole Francesaid that Yellow Peril ideology was to be expected from a racist man such as the Kaiser. Inverting the racist premise of Asian invasion, France showed that European imperialism in Asia and Africa indicated that the European White Peril was the true threat to the world.In his essay "The Bogey of the Yellow Peril" (1904), the British journalistDemetrius Charles Boulgersaid the Yellow Peril was racist hysteria for popular consumption.Asian geopolitical dominance of the world is "the prospect, placed before the uninstructed reading public, is a revival of the Hun and Mongol terrors, and the names ofAttilaand Genghis are set out in the largest type to create feelings of apprehension. The reader is assured, in the most positive manner, that this is the doing of the enterprising nation of Japan ".Throughout the successful imperial intrigues facilitated by Germany's Yellow Peril ideology, the Kaiser's true geopolitical target was Britain.

United Kingdom

Though Chinese civilization was admired in18th century Britain,by the 19th century, theOpium Warsled to the creation of racialist stereotypes of the Chinese among the British public, who cast the Chinese "as a threatening, expansionist foe" and a corrupt and depraved people.Still, there were exceptions to popular racism of the Yellow Peril. In May 1890,William Ewart Gladstonecriticized anti-Chinese immigration laws in Australia for penalizing their virtues of hard work (diligence, thrift and integrity), instead of penalizing their vices (gambling and opium smoking).

Cultural temper

In 1904, in a meeting about the Russo-Japanese War, KingEdward VIIheard the Kaiser complain that the Yellow Peril is "the greatest peril menacing... Christendom and European civilization. If the Russians went on giving ground, the yellow race would, in twenty years time, be in Moscow and Posen ".The Kaiser criticized the British for siding with Japan against Russia, and said that "race treason" was the motive. King Edward said he "could not see it. The Japanese were an intelligent, brave and chivalrous nation, quite as civilized as the Europeans, from whom they only differed by the pigmentation of their skin".

Unlike the Kaiser of Germany, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom did not see the Japanese as the Yellow Peril in the Russo–Japanese War. (1904–05)

The first British usage of the Yellow Peril phrase was in theDaily News(21 July 1900) report describing theBoxer Rebellionas "the yellow peril in its most serious form".In that time, BritishSinophobia,the fear of Chinese people, did not include all Asians, because Britain had sided with Japan during the Russo–Japanese War, whilst France and Germany supported Russia;whereas the reports of CaptainWilliam Pakenham"tended to depict Russia as his enemy, not just Japan's".

About pervasive Sinophobia in Western culture, inThe Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia(2014), historian Christopher Frayling noted:

In the early decades of the 20th century, Britain buzzed with Sinophobia. Respectable middle-class magazines, tabloids and comics, alike, spread stories of ruthless Chinese ambitions to destroy the West. The Chinese master-criminal (with his "crafty yellow face twisted by a thin-lipped grin", dreaming of world domination) had become a staple of children's publications. In 1911, "The Chinese in England: A Growing National Problem" an article distributed around the Home Office, warned of "a vast and convulsive Armageddon to determine who is to be the master of the world, the white or yellow man." After the First World War, cinemas, theater, novels, and newspapers broadcast visions of the "Yellow Peril" machinating to corrupt white society. In March 1929, thechargé d'affaires,at London's Chinese legation, complained that no fewer than five plays, showing in the West End, depicted Chinese people in "a vicious and objectionable form".

Moralistic panic

TheLimehousedistrict in London (which had a large Chinese element) was portrayed in the British popular imagination as a center of moral depravity and vice, i.e. sexual prostitution, opium smoking, and gambling.According to historian Anne Witchard, many Londoners believed the British Chinese community, includingTriadgangsters, "were abducting young English women to sell intowhite slavery",a fate" worse than death "in Western popular culture.In 1914, at the start of the First World War, theDefense of the Realm Actwas amended to include the smoking of opium as proof of "moral depravity" that merited deportation, a legal pretext for deporting members of the Chinese community to China.This anti-Chinesemoral panicderived in part from the social reality that British women were becoming more financially independent by way of war-production jobs, which allowed them (among other things) greater sexual freedom, a cultural threat to Britain's patriarchal society.Witchard noted that stories of "working-class girls consorting with “Chinamen” in Limehouse "and" debutantes leading officers astray in Soho drinking dens "contributed to the anti-Chinese moral panic.

United States

19th century

In the U.S., Yellow Peril xenophobia was legalized with thePage Act of 1875,theChinese Exclusion Actof 1882, and theGeary Actof 1892. The Chinese Exclusion Act replaced theBurlingame Treaty(1868), which had encouraged Chinese migration, and provided that "citizens of the United States in China, of every religious persuasion, and Chinese subjects, in the United States, shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience, and shall be exempt from all disability or persecution, on account of their religious faith or worship, in either country", withholding only the right of naturalized citizenship.

InTombstone, Arizona,sheriffJohnny Behanand mayorJohn Clumorganized the "Anti-Chinese League" in 1880,which was reorganized into the "Anti-Chinese Secret Society of Cochise County" in 1886.In 1880, the Yellow Peril pogrom of Denver featured the lynching of a Chinese man and the destruction of Denver's Chinatown ghetto.In 1885, theRock Springs massacreof 28 miners destroyed a Wyoming Chinese community.InWashington Territory,Yellow Peril fear provoked theAttack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885;the arson of the Seattle Chinatown; and theTacoma riot of 1885,by which the local white inhabitants expelled the Chinese community from their towns.In Seattle, theKnights of Laborexpelled 200 Chinese people with theSeattle riot of 1886.In Oregon, 34 Chinese gold miners were ambushed, robbed, and killed in theHells Canyon Massacre(1887). Moreover, concerning the experience of being Chinese in the 19th-century U.S., in the essay "A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty" (1885), Sauum Song Bo said:

Seeing that the heading is an appeal to American citizens, to their love of country and liberty, I feel my countrymen, and myself, are honored in being thus appealed to, as citizens in the cause of liberty. But the word liberty makes me think of the fact that this country is a land of liberty for men of all nations, except the Chinese. I consider it an insult to us Chinese to call on us to contribute towards building, in this land, a pedestal for a statue of liberty. That statue represents Liberty holding a torch, which lights the passage of those of all nations who come into this country. But are Chinese allowed to come? As for the Chinese who are here, are they allowed to enjoy liberty as men of all other nationalities enjoy it? Are they allowed to go about everywhere free from insults, abuse, assaults, wrongs and injuries from which men of other nationalities are free?

20th century

To contain the Yellow Peril, the Immigration Act of 1917 established the Asiatic Barred Zone from which the U.S. admitted no immigrants.

Undernativistpolitical pressure, theImmigration Act of 1917established an Asian Barred Zone of countries from which immigration to the U.S. was forbidden. TheCable Act of 1922(Married Women's Independent Nationality Act) guaranteed citizenship to independent women unless they were married to a nonwhite alien ineligible for naturalization.Asian men and women were excluded from American citizenship.

In practice, the Cable Act of 1922 reversed some racial exclusions, and granted independent woman citizenship exclusively to women married to white men. Analogously, the Cable Act allowed the government to revoke the citizenship of an American white woman married an Asian man. The law was formally challenged before the Supreme Court, with the case ofTakao Ozawa v. United States(1922), whereby a Japanese American man tried to demonstrate that the Japanese people are a white race eligible for naturalized American citizenship. The Court ruled that the Japanese are not white people; two years later, theNational Origins Quota of 1924specifically excluded the Japanese from entering the US and from American citizenship.

Ethnic national character

The religious racialism ofThe Yellow Peril(1911, 3rd ed.), byG. G. Rupert,proposed that Russia would unite the Oriental races to invade, conquer, and subjugate Christian civilization in the Western world.

To "preserve the ideal of American homogeneity", theEmergency Quota Actof 1921 (numeric limits) and theImmigration Act of 1924(fewer southern and eastern Europeans) restricted admission to the United States according to the skin color and theraceof the immigrant.In practice, the Emergency Quota Act used outdated census data to determine the number of colored immigrants to admit to the U.S. To protect WASP ethnic supremacy (social, economic, political) in the 20th century, the Immigration Act of 1924 used the twenty-year-old census of 1890, because its 19th-century demographic-group percentages favored more admissions of WASP immigrants from western and northern Europe, and fewer admissions of colored immigrants from Asia and southern and eastern Europe.

To ensure that the immigration of colored peoples did not change the WASP national character of the United States, theNational Origins Formula(1921–1965) meant to maintain thestatus quopercentages of "ethnic populations"in lesser proportion to the existing white populations; thus, the yearly quota allowed only 150,000People of Colorinto the U.S.A. In the event, the national-origins Formula was voided and repealed with theImmigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

Eugenic apocalypse

Theeugenic racialismproposed inThe Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy(1920), byLothrop Stoddard,presents either China or Japan as uniting the Oriental races to invade, conquer, and subjugate the white civilizations of the Western world.

Eugenicistsused the Yellow Peril to misrepresent the U.S. as an exclusively WASP nation threatened bymiscegenationwith the Asian Other by expressing their racism with biological language (infection, disease, decay) and imagery of penetration (wounds and sores) of the white body.InThe Yellow Peril; or, Orient vs. Occident(1911), theend timeevangelistG. G. Rupertsaid that Russia would unite the colored races to facilitate theOrientalinvasion, conquest, and subjugation of the West; said white supremacy is in the Christianeschatologyof verse 16:12 in theBook of Revelation:"Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River, and it dried up so that the kings from the east could march their armies toward the west without hindrance".As an Old-Testament Christian, Rupert believed the racialist doctrine ofBritish Israelism,and said that the Yellow Peril from China, India, Japan, and Korea, were attacking Britain and the US, but that the Christian God himself would halt the Asian conquest of the Western world.

InThe Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy(1920), the eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard said that either China or Japan would unite the colored peoples of Asia and lead them to destroy white supremacy in the Western world, and that the Asian conquest of the world began with the Japanese victory in the Russo–Japanese War (1905). As awhite supremacist,Stoddard presented his racism with Biblical language and catastrophic imagery depicting a rising tide of colored people meaning to invade, conquer, and subjugate the white race.

Political opposition

In that cultural vein, the phrase "yellow peril" was common editorial usage in the newspapers of publisherWilliam Randolph Hearst.In the 1930s, Hearst's newspapers conducted a campaign of vilification (personal and political) against Elaine Black, anAmerican communist,whom he denounced as alibertine"Tiger Woman" for her interracial cohabitation with the Japanese American communistKarl Yoneda.In 1931,interracial marriagewas illegal in California, but, in 1935, Black and Yoneda married in Seattle, Washington, where such marriages were legal.

Socially acceptable Asian

In the 1930s, Yellow Peril stereotypes were common to US culture, exemplified by the cinematic versions of the Asian detectivesCharlie Chan(Warner Oland) andMr. Moto(Peter Lorre), originally literary detectives in novels and comic strips. White actors portrayed the Asian men and made the fictional characters socially acceptable in mainstream American cinema, especially when the villains were secret agents of Imperial Japan.

American proponents of the Japanese Yellow Peril were the military-industrial interests of theChina Lobby(right-wing intellectuals, businessmen, Christian missionaries) who advocated financing and supporting thewarlordGeneralissimoChiang Kai-shek,a Methodist convert whom they represented as the Christian Chinese savior of China, then embroiled in theChinese Civil War(1927–1937, 1946–1950). After the Japanese invaded China in 1937, the China Lobby successfully pressured the U.S. government to aid Chiang Kai-shek's faction. The news media's reportage (print, radio, cinema) of theSecond Sino-Japanese War(1937–45) favored China, which politically facilitated the American financing and equipping of the anticommunistKuomintang,the Chiang Kai-shek faction in the civil war against the Communist faction led byMao Tse-tung.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling) wife ofChiang Kai-shek(President of the Republic of China), Is credited for her role in reducinganti-Chinese sentimentand influencing the repeal of theChinese Exclusion Act.She gained respect from the US administration, working closely in partnership with her husband, particularly in his Chinese foreign relations due to her excellent English.To the administration she was a sign of hope, representing the success of the US cultural exchange with China, her father having been converted to Christianity by a US missionary, and became a symbol of the US-Chinese alliance against Japan.Her popularity amongst the US population, drawing crowds of up to 30,000 on her 1943 nationwide speaking tour, changed the image of Chinese women.She was not only idolised for being glamorous, appearing on the cover of TIME magazine numerous times, but also represented a relatability due to her Christian faith and having received a good american education.The Citizens Committee to repeal Chinese Exclusion utilised her public popularity and good reputation to push for change in immigration laws.Further she influenced opinion congression on Chinese citizenship; representative Walter Judd proclaiming on national radio,

“Our exclusion of the Chinese on a racial basis also violates the finest traditions and the moral sense of the American people. Under our present laws, Hitler is admissible to our country and eligible for citizenship—Madame Chiang Kai-shek is not!”

Madame Chiang was a symbol of the modern Chinese population and changed the US perception of China. She showed the potential for modernising China to become a democratic nation.

Pragmatic racialism

In 1941, after the Japaneseattack on Pearl Harbor,the Roosevelt administration formally declared China an ally of the U.S., and news media modified their use of Yellow Peril ideology to include China to the West, criticizing contemporary anti-Chinese laws as counterproductive to the war effort againstImperial Japan.The wartimezeitgeistand the geopolitics of the U.S. government presumed that defeat of the Imperial Japan would be followed by postwar China developing into a capitalist economy under thestrongmanleadership of the ChristianGeneralissimoChiang Kai-shekand theKuomintang(Chinese Nationalist Party).

In his relations with the American government and his China Lobby sponsors, Chiang requested the repeal of American anti-Chinese laws; to achieve the repeals, Chiang threatened to exclude the American business community from the "China Market", the economic fantasy that the China Lobby promised to the American business community.In 1943, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was repealed, but, because the National Origins Act of 1924 was contemporary law, the repeal was a symbolic gesture of American solidarity with the people of China.

Science fiction writerWilliam F. Wusaid that American adventure, crime, and detectivepulp magazinesin the 1930s had many Yellow Peril characters, loosely based onFu Manchu;although "most [Yellow Peril characters] were of Chinese descent", the geopolitics of the time led white people to see Japan as a threat to the United States. InThe Yellow Peril: Chinese Americans in American fiction, 1850–1940(1982), Wu said that fear of Asians dates from the EuropeanMiddle Ages,from the 13th-centuryMongol invasion of Europe.Most Europeans had never seen an Asian man or woman, and the great differences in language, custom, and physique accounted for European paranoia about the nonwhite peoples from the Eastern world.

21st century

The American academicFrank H. Wusaid that anti-Chinese sentiment incited by people such asSteve BannonandPeter Thielis recycling anti-Asian hatred from the 19th century into a "new Yellow Peril" that is common to Whitepopulist politicsthat do not distinguish between Asian foreigners and Asian American U.S. citizens.That American cultural anxiety about the geopolitical ascent of thePeople's Republic of Chinaoriginates in the fact that, for the first time in centuries, the Western world, led by the U.S., is challenged by a people whom Westerners viewed as culturally backward and racially inferior only a generation earlier.That the U.S. perceives China as "the enemy", because their economic success voids the myth ofwhite supremacyupon which the West claims cultural superiority over the East.Moreover, theCOVID-19 pandemichas facilitated and increased the occurrence ofxenophobia and anti-Chinese racism,which the academic Chantal Chung said has "deep roots in yellow peril ideology".

Australia

TheWhite Australia policyarose from the growth of anti-Asian (particularly Chinese) sentiments that peaked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pictured: TheMelbourne Punch(c. May 1888)

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fear of the Yellow Peril was a cultural feature of the white peoples who sought to establish a country and a society in the Australian continent. The racialist fear of the nonwhite Asian Other was a thematic preoccupation common toinvasion literaturenovels, such asThe Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia(1895),The Colored Conquest(1904),The Awakening to China(1909), and theFools' Harvest(1939). Such fantasy literature featured an Asian invasion of "the empty north" of Australia, which was populated by theAboriginal Australians,the nonwhite, native Other with whom the white emigrants competed for living space.In the novelWhite or Yellow?: A Story of the Race War of A.D. 1908(1887), the journalist and labor leaderWilliam Lanesaid that a horde of Chinese people legally arrived in Australia and overran white society and monopolized the industries for exploiting the natural resources of the Australian "empty north".

The Yellow Peril was used to justify theWhite Australia Policy,which excluded dark-skinnedMelanesiansfrom immigration to Australia.

White nation

As Australian invasion literature of the 19th-century, thefuture history novelWhite or Yellow?(1887) presents William Lane'snationalist racialismandleft-wing politicsthat portrayed Australia under threat by the Yellow Peril. In the near future, British capitalists manipulate the Australian legal system and then legislate the mass immigration of Chinese workers to Australia, regardless of the socioeconomic consequences to white Australian society. Consequent to the British manipulation of Australia's economy, the resulting social conflicts (racial, financial, cultural, sexual) escalate into a race war for control of Australia.

The Yellow Peril racism in the narrative of the novelWhite or Yellow?justifies White Australians' killing Chinese workers as a defensive, existential response for control of Australia.Lang's story of White racial replacement appeals to the fears that labor and trade union leaders exploited to oppose the legal immigration of Chinese workers, whom they misrepresented as racial, economic, and moral threats to White Australia. That Asianlibertinismthreatens White Christian civilization, which theme Lang represents withmiscegenation(mi xing of the races). The fear of racial replacement was presented as an apolitical call to white racial unity in among Australians.

Culturally, Yellow Peril invasion novels expressed themes of the white man's sexual fear of the supposed voracious sexuality of Asian men and women. The stories feature Western women in sexual peril, usually rape-by-seduction facilitated with the sensual and moral release of smokedopium.In the patriarchal world of invasion literature, interracial sexual relations were "a fate worse than death" for a white woman, afterward, she was a sexual untouchable to white men.In the 1890s, that moralistic theme was the anti-Chinese message of the feminist and labor organizerRose Summerfieldwho voiced the white woman's sexual fear of the Yellow Peril, by warning society of the Chinese man's unnaturally lustfulgazeupon the pulchritude of Australian women.

Opposition to the racial equality proposal

In 1901, theAustralian federal governmentadopted theWhite Australia policythat had been informally initiated with theImmigration Restriction Act 1901,which generally excluded Asians, but in particular excluded the Chinese and theMelanesianpeoples. HistorianC. E. W. Beansaid that the White Australia policy was "a vehement effort to maintain a high, Western standard of economy, society, and culture (necessitating, at that stage, however it might be camouflaged, the rigid exclusion of Oriental peoples)" from Australia.In 1913, appealing to the irrational fear of the Yellow Peril, the filmAustralia Calls(1913) depicted a "Mongolian" invasion of Australia, which eventually is defeated by ordinary Australians with underground, political resistance andguerrilla warfare,and not by the army of the Australian federal government.

In 1919, at theParis Peace Conference,Australian Prime MinisterBilly Hughesvehemently opposed the Japanese delegation's request for the inclusion of theRacial Equality Proposalto Article 21 of theCovenant of the League of Nations:

The equality of nations being a basic principle of the League of Nations, the High Contracting Parties agree to accord, as soon as possible, to all alien nationals of states, members of the League, equal and just treatment in every respect, making no distinction, either in law or in fact, on account of their race or nationality.

Hughes stated in response to the proposal that "ninety-five out of one hundred Australians rejected the very idea of equality"; he had entered politics as atrade unionistand, like the majority of thewhite Australian population,was strongly opposed to Asian immigration into Australia. Hughes believed that accepting the clause would mean the end of the White Australia policy and wrote: "No Gov't could live for a day in Australia if it tampered with a White Australia."Though UK officials in the British delegation (which Australia was a part of) found the proposal compatible with Britain's stance of nominal equality for allBritish subjectsas a principle for maintaining imperial unity, they ultimately succumbed to pressure from politicians in Britain'sdominions,including Hughes, and signalled their opposition to the clause.

Though conference chairman,U.S. PresidentWoodrow Wilson,was indifferent to the clause, he eventually sided with the British delegation and stipulated that a unilateral requirement of a unanimous vote by the countries in the League of Nations was required for the clause to be included. On 11 April 1919, after protracted and heated debate, a final vote was called; from a quorum of 17, the proposal secured 11 votes in favor, with no delegate from any nation voting no, though there were 6 abstentions, including all 4 from the British and American delegations; it did not pass.

France

French postcard captioned "Make way for the yellows" shows Japanese imperialism running over four great nations of Europe—Russia, Britain, France, and Germany

Colonial empire

In the late 19th century, French imperialist politicians invoked thePéril jaune(Yellow Peril) in their negative comparisons of France's low birth-rate and the high birth-rates of Asian countries.From that racist claim arose an artificial, cultural fear among the French population that immigrant-worker Asians soon would "flood" France, which could be successfully countered only by increased fecundity of French women. Then, France would possess enough soldiers to thwart the eventual flood of immigrants from Asia.From that racialist perspective, the French press sided with Imperial Russia during theRusso-Japanese War(1904–1905), by representing the Russians as heroes defending the white race against the Japanese Yellow Peril.

French Indochina: In the oriental French Empire, the country and people of Vietnam were renamedFrench Indochina.(1913)

In the early 20th century, in 1904, the French journalist René Pinon reported that the Yellow Peril were a cultural, geopolitical, and existential threat to white civilization in the Western world:

The "Yellow Peril" has entered already into the imagination of the people, just as represented in the famous drawing [Peoples of Europe, Guard Your Most Sacred Possessions,1895] of the Emperor Wilhelm II: In a setting of conflagration and carnage, Japanese and Chinese hordes spread out over all Europe, crushing under their feet the ruins of our capital cities and destroying our civilizations, grown anemic due to the enjoyment of luxuries, and corrupted by the vanity of spirit.

Hence, little by little, there emerges the idea that even if a day must come (and that day does not seem near) the European peoples will cease to be their own enemies and even economic rivals, there will be a struggle ahead to face and there will rise a new peril, the yellow man.

The civilized world has always organized itself before and against a common adversary: for the Roman world, it was the barbarian; for the Christian world, it was Islam; for the world of tomorrow, it may well be the yellow man. And so we have the reappearance of this necessary concept, without which peoples do not know themselves, just as the "Me" only takes conscience of itself in opposition to the "non-Me":The Enemy.

Despite the claimed Christian idealism of thecivilizing mission,from the start of colonization in 1858, the French exploited the natural resources of Vietnam as inexhaustible and the Vietnamese people as beasts of burden.In the aftermath of the Second World War, theFirst Indochina War(1946–1954) justified recolonization of Vietnam as a defense of the white West against thepéril jaune—specifically that theCommunist Party of Vietnamwere puppets of the People's Republic of China, which is part of the "international communist conspiracy" to conquer the world.Therefore, Frenchanticommunismutilized orientalism to dehumanize the Vietnamese into "the nonwhiteOther";which yellow-peril racism allowed atrocities againstViet Minhprisoners of war duringla sale guerre( "dirty war" ).In that time, yellow-peril racism remained one of the ideological bases for the existence ofFrench Indochina,thus the French news media'sracialist misrepresentationsof Viet Minh guerrillas being part of theinnombrables masses jaunes(innumerable yellow hordes); being one of manyvagues hurlantes(roaring waves) ofmasses fanatisées(fanatical hordes).

Contemporary France

InBehind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community(1991) Gi sắc le Luce Bousquet said that thepéril jaune,which traditionally colored French perceptions of Asians, especially ofVietnamese people,remains a cultural prejudice of contemporary France;hence the French perceive and resent the Vietnamese people of France as academic overachievers who take jobs from "native French" people.

In 2015, the cover of the January issue ofFluide Glacialmagazine featured a cartoon,Yellow Peril: Is it Already Too Late?,which depicts a Chinese-occupied Paris where a sad Frenchman is pulling a rickshaw, transporting a Chinese man, in 19th c. French colonial uniform, accompanied by a barely dressed, blonde French woman.The editor ofFluide Glacial,Yan Lindingre, defended the magazine cover and the subject as satire and mockery of French fears of China's economic threat to France.In an editorial addressing the Chinese government's complaint, Lindingre said, "I have just ordered an extra billion copies printed, and will send them to you via chartered flight. This will help us balance our trade deficit, and give you a good laugh".

Italy

In the 20th century, from their perspective, as nonwhite nations in a world order dominated by the white nations, the geopolitics ofEthiopia–Japan relationsallowedImperial JapanandEthiopiato avoidimperialistEuropeancolonizationof their countries and nations. Before theSecond Italo-Ethiopian War(1934–1936), Imperial Japan had given diplomatic and military support to Ethiopia against invasion byFascist Italy,which implied military assistance. In response to that Asian anti-imperialism,Benito Mussoliniordered a Yellow Peril propaganda campaign by the Italian press, which represented Imperial Japan as the military, cultural, and existential threat to the Western world, by way of the dangerous "yellow race–black race" alliance meant tounite Asians and Africansagainst the white people of the world.

In a report from theChamber of Deputieson 2 January 1934, MarquisGiacomo Medici del Vascellowrote: "Today Japan is invading China, and inspired by race hatred she is laying plans for tomorrow against the white race." The Chamber of Deputies described Japan's withdrawal from theLeague of Nationsas "significant and threatening."

In 1935, Mussolini warned of the Japanese Yellow Peril, specifically the racial threat of Asia and Africa uniting against Europe.In the summer of 1935, theNational Fascist Partyoften staged anti–Japanese political protests throughout Italy.Nonetheless, as right-wing imperial powers, Japan and Italy pragmatically agreed to disagree; in exchange for Italian diplomatic recognition ofManchukuo(1932–45), the Japanese puppet state in China, Imperial Japan would not aid Ethiopia against Italian invasion and so Italy would end the anti–Japanese Yellow Peril propaganda in the national press of Italy.

Mexico

In revolutionary Mexico (1910–1920), a wagonload of Asian corpses is en route to a common grave after fear of the Yellow Peril provoked a three-day massacre (11–15 May 1911) of 308 Asian people (303 Chinese, 5 Japanese) in the city of Torreón, Coahuila, in northern Mexico.

During theMexican Revolution(1910–1920),Chinese-Mexicanswere subjected to racist abuse, like before the revolt, for not being Christians, specificallyRoman Catholic,for not being raciallyMexican,and for not soldiering and fighting in the Revolution against the thirty-five-year dictatorship (1876–1911) of GeneralPorfirio Díaz.

The notable atrocity against Asian people was the three-dayTorreón massacre(13–15 May 1911) in northern Mexico, wherein the military forces ofFrancisco I. Maderokilled 308 Asian people (303 Chinese, 5 Japanese), because they were deemed a cultural threat to the Mexican way of life. The massacre of Chinese andJapanese Mexicansat the city of Torreón,Coahuila,was not the only such atrocity perpetrated in the Revolution. Elsewhere, in 1913, after theConstitutional Armycaptured the city ofTamasopo,San Luis Potosí state, the soldiers and the town-folk expelled the Chinese community by sacking and burning the Chinatown.

During and after the Mexican Revolution, the Roman Catholic prejudices of Yellow Peril ideology facilitated racial discrimination and violence against Chinese Mexicans, usually for "stealing jobs" from native Mexicans. Anti–Chinese nativist propaganda misrepresented the Chinese people as unhygienic, prone to immorality (miscegenation, gambling, opium-smoking) and spreading diseases that would biologically corrupt and degenerateLa Raza(the Mexican race) and generally undermining the Mexican patriarchy.

Moreover, from the racialist perspective, besides stealing work from Mexican men, Chinese men were stealing Mexican women from the native Mexican men who were away fighting the Revolution to overthrow and expel the dictatorPorfirio Díazand his foreign sponsors from Mexico.In the 1930s, approximately 70 per cent of the Chinese and the Chinese–Mexican population was expelled from the Mexican United States by the bureaucratic ethnic culling of the Mexican population.

Turkey

In 1908, at the end of theOttoman Empire(1299–1922) theYoung Turk Revolutionascended theCommittee of Union and Progress(CUP) to power, which the1913 Ottoman coup d'étatreinforced with the Raid on the Sublime Porte. In admiration and emulation that the modernization of Japan during theMeiji Restoration(1868) was achieved without the Japanese people losing their national identity, the CUP intended to modernize Turkey into the "Japan of the Near East".To that end, the CUP considered allying Turkey with Japan in a geopolitical effort to unite the peoples of the Eastern world to fight aracial warof extermination against the White colonial empires of the West.Politically, the cultural, nationalist, and geopolitical affinities of Turkey and Japan were possible because, in Turkish culture, the "yellow" color of "Eastern gold" symbolizes the innate moral superiority of the East over the West.

Fear of the Yellow Peril occurs against the Chinese communities of Turkey, usually as political retaliation against the PRC government's repressions and human-rights abuses against the MuslimUighur peoplein theXin gian g provinceof China.At an anti–PRC political protest in Istanbul, a South Korean woman tourist faced violence, despite identifying herself: "I am not Chinese, I am Korean".In response that Yellow Peril racism in Turkey,Devlet Bahçeli,leader of the extreme right-wingNationalist Movement Party,rhetorically asked: "How does one distinguish, between Chinese and Koreans? Both have slanted eyes".

South Africa

The Randlord's (mine owners') exploitive employment of Chinese labor contributed to the Liberal Party victory in the 1906 elections. (Punch magazine, 1903)

In 1904, after the conclusion of theSecond Boer War,theUnionist Governmentof the Britain authorized the immigration toSouth Africaof approximately 63,000Chinese laborersto work the gold mines in theWitwatersrand basin.

On 26 March 1904, approximately 80,000 people attended a social protest against the use of Chinese laborers in the Transvaal held inHyde Park, London,to publicize theexploitationofChinese South Africans.The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress then passed a resolution declaring:

That this meeting, consisting of all classes of citizens of London, emphatically protests against the action of the Government in granting permission to import into South Africa indentured Chinese labor under conditions of slavery, and calls upon them to protect this new colony from the greed of capitalists and the Empire from degradation.

The mass immigration ofindenturedChinese laborers to mine South African gold for wages lower than acceptable to the native white men, contributed to the 1906 electoral loss of the financially conservative British Unionist government that then governed South Africa.

After 1910, most Chinese miners were repatriated to China because of the great opposition to them, as "colored people" in white South Africa, analogous to anti-Chinese laws in the US during the early 20th century.Despite the racial violence between white South African miners and Chinese miners, the Unionist government achieved the economic recovery of South Africa after theSecond Boer Warby rendering the gold mines of the Witwatersrand Basin the most productive in the world.

New Zealand

In the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, populist Prime MinisterRichard Seddoncompared the Chinese people to monkeys, and so used the Yellow Peril to promoteracialistpolitics in New Zealand. In 1879, in his first political speech, Seddon said that New Zealand did not wish her shores "deluged with AsiaticTartars.I would sooner address white men than these Chinese. You can't talk to them, you can't reason with them. All you can get from them is 'No savvy' ".

Moreover, in 1905, in the city of Wellington, thewhite supremacistLionel Terrymurdered Joe Kum Yung, an old Chinese man, in protest against Asian immigration to New Zealand. Laws promulgated to limit Chinese immigration included a heavypoll tax,introduced in 1881 and lowered in 1937, afterImperial Japan'sinvasion and occupationof China. In 1944, the poll tax was abolished, and in 2002 theNew Zealand governmentformally apologized to the Chinese populace of New Zealand.

Sexual fears

Background

The core of Yellow Peril ideology is the White man's fear of seduction by the Oriental nonwhiteOther;either the sexual voracity of theDragon Ladyand theLotus Blossomstereotypes, or the sexual voracity of the Seducer.Racist revulsion towardsmiscegenation—interracial sexual intercourse—by the fear of mixed-race children as a physical, cultural, and existential threat to Whiteness proper.InQueer theory,the termOrientalconnotes contradictory sexual associations according to the nationality. A person can be perceived as Japanese and kinky, or as Filipino and available. Sometimes,Orientalcould be sexless.

The seducer

Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward) and Hishuru Tori (Sessue Hayakawa) inThe Cheat(1915)

The seductive Asian man (wealthy and cultured) was the common White male fear of the Asian sexual "other." The Yellow Peril sexual threat was realized by way of successful sexual competition, usually seduction or rape, which rendered the woman a sexual untouchable. (see:55 Days at Peking,1963)InRomance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction(1994) the critic Gary Hoppenstand identified interracial sexual-intercourse as a threat to whiteness:

The threat of rape, the rape of white society dominated the yellow formula. The British or American hero, during the course of his battle against the yellow peril, overcomes numerous traps and obstacles in order to save his civilization, and the primary symbol of that civilization: white women. Stories featuring the Yellow Peril were arguments for white purity. Certainly, the potential union of the Oriental and white implied at best, a form of beastly sodomy, and at worse, a Satanic marriage. The Yellow Peril stereotype easily became incorporated into Christian mythology, and the Oriental assumed the role of the devil or demon. The Oriental rape of white woman signified a spiritual damnation for the women, and at the larger level, white society.

• InThe Cheat(1915), Hishuru Tori (Sessue Hayakawa) is a sadistic Japanese sexual predator interested in Edith Hardy (Fannie Ward), an American housewife.Although superficiallyWesternized,Tori's sexual sadism reflects his true identity as an Asian.In being "brutal and cultivated, wealthy and base, cultured and barbaric, Tori embodies the contradictory qualities Americans associate with Japan".The story initially presents Tori as an "asexual" man associating among the high society ofLong Island.Once Edith is in his private study, decorated with Japanese art, Tori is a man of "brooding, implicitly sadistic sexuality".Before Tori attempts his rape-seduction of Edith, the story implies she corresponds his sexual interest. The commercial success ofThe Cheat(1915) was ensured bySessue Hayakawa,a male sex symbol of that time; a sexual threat to the WASP racial hierarchy in 1915.
• InShanghai Express(1932), General Henry Chang (Warner Oland) is a warlord of Eurasian origin, presented as an asexual man, which excludes him from Western sexual mores and the racialist hierarchy; thus, he is dangerous to the Westerners he holds hostage.Although Eurasian, Chang is prouder of his Chinese heritage, and rejects his American heritage, which rejection confirms his Oriental identity.In 1931, theChinese Civil Warhas rendered trapped a group of Westerners into traverse China by train, from Beijing to Shanghai, which is hijacked by Chang's soldiers.The story implies that Gen. Chang is a bisexual man who desires to rape both the heroine and the hero, Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich) and Captain Donald "Doc" Harvey (Clive Brook).At the story's climax, Hui Fei kills Gen. Chang to save Harvey from being blinded; she explains that killing Chang restored the self-respect he took from her. Throughout the story, the narrative indicates that Shanghai Lily and Hui Fei are more attracted to each other than to Capt. Harvey, which was daring drama in 1932, because Western mores considered bisexuality an unnatural sexual orientation.

The Dragon Lady

Main article:Dragon Lady

As a culturalrepresentationof voracious Asian sexuality, the Dragon Lady is a beautiful, charming woman who readily and easily dominates men. For the White man, the Dragon Lady is the sexualOtherwho represents morally degrading sexual desire.In the cinematic genre of the Western, the cowboy town usually features a scheming Asian prostitute who uses her prettiness, sex appeal, and charisma to beguile and dominate the White man.In the U.S. television programAlly McBeal(1997–2002), theLing Woocharacter was a Dragon Lady whose Chinese identity includes sexual skills that no white woman possess.In the late 20th century, such a sexual representation of the Yellow Peril, which was introduced in the comic stripTerry and the Pirates(1936), indicates that in the Western imagination, Asia remains the land of the sexual nonwhite Other. To the Westerner, the seductiveness of the Orient implies spiritual threat and hidden danger to white sexualidentity.

The Lotus Blossom

A variant Yellow Peril seductress is presented in thewhite saviorromance between a "White Knight" from the West and a "Lotus Blossom" from the East; each redeems the other by way of mutualromantic love.Despite being a threat to the passive sexuality of white women, the romantic narrative favorably portrays the Lotus Blossom character as a woman who needs the love of a white man to rescue her fromobjectificationby a flawed Asian culture.As a heroine, the Lotus Blossom woman is an ultra-feminine model of Asian pulchritude, social grace, and culture, whose own people trapped her in an inferior, gender-determined social-class. Only a white man can rescue her from such a cultural impasse, thereby, the narrative reaffirms themoral superiorityof the Western world.

Suzie Wong

The prostitute Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan) working a sailor to earn her keep. (The World of Suzie Wong,1960)

InThe World of Suzie Wong(1960), the eponymous antiheroine is a prostitute saved by the love of Robert Lomax (William Holden), an American painter living in Hong Kong.The East–West sexual differences available to Lomax are two: (i) the educated British woman Kay O'Neill (Sylvia Syms) who is independent and career-minded; and (ii) the poor Chinese woman Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan), a sexual prostitute who is conventionally pretty, feminine, and submissive.The cultural contrast of therepresentationsof Suzie Wong and Kay O'Neill imply that to win the love of a white man, a Western woman should emulate the sexually passive prostitute rather than an independent career-woman.As anOriental stereotype,the submissive Lotus -Blossom (Wong) "proudly displays signs of a beating, to her fellow hookers, and uses it as evidence that her man loves her", which further increases Lomax'swhite saviordesire to rescue Suzy.

Psychologically, the painter Lomax needs the prostitute Wong as the muse who inspires the self-discipline necessary for commercial success.Suzie Wong is an illiterate orphan who was sexually abused as a girl; thus her toleration of abuse by most of her Chinese clients.Unlike the Chinese and British men for whom Suzy Wong is a sexual object, Lomax is portrayed as enlightened, which implies the moral superiority of American culture, and thus that U.S. hegemony (geopolitical andcultural) shall be better than British hegemony.When a British sailor attempts to rape the prostitute Suzy Wong, the chivalrous American Lomax rescues her and beats up the sailor, whilst Chinese men are indifferent to the rape of a prostitute.As a Lotus Blossom stereotype, the prostitute Suzie Wong is a single mother.In contrast to the British and Chinese mistreatment (emotional and physical) of Wong, the white savior Lomax idealizes her as a child–woman, and saves her with the Lotus Blossom social identity, a sexually passive woman who is psychologically submissive to paternalism.Yet Lomax's love is conditional; throughout the story, Wong wears aCheongsamdress, but when she wears Western clothes, Lomax orders her to only wear Chinese clothes, because Suzie Wong is acceptable only as a Lotus Blossom stereotype.

Kim

The musicalMiss Saigon(1989), portrays Vietnam as a Third World country in need of a white savior.The opening chorus of the first song, "The Heat's on Saigon", begins thus: "The heat's on Saigon / The girls are hotter 'n hell / Tonight one of these slits will be Miss Saigon / God, the tension is high / Not to mention the smell".In Saigon City, presents the adolescent prostitute Kim as a stereotypical "Lotus Blossom" whose human identity is defined by her loving the white man Chris Scoyy, who is a marine.The story ofMiss Saigonportrays Vietnamese women as two stereotypes, the sexually aggressive Dragon Lady and the sexually passive Lotus Blossom.In Thailand,Miss Saigonmisrepresents most every Thai women as a prostitute. At the Dreamland brothel, the Vietnamese woman Kim is the only prostitute to not present herself in a bikini swimsuit to the clients.

Literary Yellow Peril

Novels

Dr. Fu Manchu(1958) is an example of Yellow Peril ideology for children. (art byCarl Burgos)

The Yellow Peril was a common subject for 19th-centuryadventure fiction,of whichDr. Fu Manchuis the representative villain, created in the likeness of the villain in the novelThe Yellow Danger; Or, what Might Happen in the Division of the Chinese Empire Should Estrange all European Countries(1898), byM. P. Shiel.The Chinese gangster Fu Manchu is a mad scientist intent upon conquering the world, but is continually foiled by the British policeman SirDenis Nayland Smithand his companion Dr. Petrie, in thirteen novels (1913–59), bySax Rohmer.

Fu Manchu heads the Si-Fan, an international criminal organization and a pan-Asian gang of murderers recruited from the "darkest places of the East".The plots of the novels feature the recurring scene of Fu Manchu despatching assassins (usually Chinese or Indian) to kill Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie. In the course of adventure, Nayland-Smith and Petrie are surrounded by murderous colored men, Rohmer's Yellow Peril metaphor for Western trespass against the East.In the context of the Fu Manchu series, and Shiel's influence, reviewer Jack Adrian described Sax Rohmer as a

shameless inflater of a peril that was no peril at all... into an absurd global conspiracy. He had not even the excuse... of his predecessor in this shabby lie, M.P. Shiel, who was a vigorous racist, sometimes exhibiting a hatred and horror of Jews and Far Eastern races. Rohmer's own racism was careless and casual, a mere symptom of the times.

Yellow Peril: The Adventures of Sir John Weymouth–Smythe(1978), by Richard Jaccoma, is apasticheof the Fu Manchu novels.Set in the 1930s, the story is a distillation of the Dragon Lady seductress stereotype and of the ruthlessMongolswho threaten the West. The first-person narrative is by Sir John Weymouth–Smythe, an antihero who is a lecher and a prude, continually torn between sensual desire and Victorian prudery. The plot is the quest for the Spear of Destiny, a relic with supernatural power, which gives the possessor control of the world. Throughout the story, Weymouth–Smythe spends much time battling the villain, Chou en Shu, for possession of the Spear of Destiny. Thematic developments reveal that true villain are but the (Nazi). ostensible allies of Weymouth–Smythe. The Nazis leaders is Clara Schicksal, a Teutonic blonde woman who sacrifices Myanma boys to ancient German gods, whilstfellatingthem; later, in punishment, Weymouth–Symthe sodomizes Clara.

TheYellow Peril(1989), by Bao Mi (Wang Lixiong) presents a civil war in the People's Republic of China that escalates to internalnuclear warfare,which then escalates into theThird World War.Published after theTiananmen Square protests of 1989,the political narrative ofYellow Perilpresents the dissident politics of anti–Communist Chinese, and consequently was suppressed by the Chinese government.

Short stories

InThe Yellow Menacefilm serial, Asian villains threaten the white heroine. (September 1916)

• The Infernal War(La Guerre infernale,1908), byPierre Giffard,illustrated byAlbert Robida,is a science fiction story that depicts a War as a fight among the empires of the White man, which distraction allows China to invade Russia, and Japan to invade the U.S. In support of Yellow Peril racism, Robida's illustrations depict the cruelties and tortures that Asians inflict upon the White man, Russian and American.
• In "Under the Ban of Li Shoon" (1916) and "Li Shoon's Deadliest Mission" (1916),H. Irving Hancockintroduced the villainLi Shoon,a "tall and stout" man with "a round, moon-like yellow face" with "bulging eyebrows" above "sunken eyes". Personally, Li Shoon is "an amazing compound of evil" andintellect,which makes him "a wonder at everything wicked" and "a marvel of satanic cunning."
• The Peril of the Pacific(1916), byJ. Allan Dunn,describes a fantastical, 1920 Japanese invasion of theU.S. mainlandrealized by an alliance between treasonousJapanese-Americansand the Imperial Japanese Navy. The racist language of J. Allan Dunn's narrative communicates the irrational, Yellow Peril fear of and about Japanese-American citizens in California, who were exempt from arbitrary deportation by theGentlemen's Agreement of 1907.
• "The Unparalleled Invasion"(1910), by Jack London, set between 1976 and 1987, shows China conquering and colonizing neighboring countries. In self-defense, the Western World retaliate withbiological warfare.Western armies and navies kill the Chinese refugees at the border, andpunitive expeditionskill the survivors in China. London describes this war of extermination as necessary to the whitesettler colonialismof China, in accordance with "the democratic American program".
• In "He"(1926), by H. P. Lovecraft, the protagonist white-man is allowed to see the future of planet Earth, and sees" yellow men "triumphantly dancing among the ruins of the White man's world. In"The Horror at Red Hook"(1927), features Red Hook, New York, as a place were" slant-eyed immigrants practice nameless rites in honor of heathen gods by the light of the moon. "

Cinema

The Yellow Peril Future: InFlash Gordon Conquers the Universe(1940), Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) and a concubine (Carmen D'Antonio).

In the 1930s, American cinema (Hollywood) presented contradictory images of East Asian men: (i) The malevolent master-criminal, Dr.Fu Manchu;and (ii) The benevolent master-detective,Charlie Chan.Fu Manchu is "[Sax] Rohmer's concoction of cunning Asian villainy [that] connects with the irrational fears of proliferation and incursion: Racist myths often carried by the water imagery of flood, deluge, the tidal waves of immigrants, rivers of blood."

The Mask of Fu Manchu(1932) shows that the white man's sexual-anxiety is one of the bases of Yellow Peril fear, especially when Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff) urges his Asian army to "Kill the white man and take his women!"Moreover, as an example of "unnatural" sexual relations among Asians, father–daughter incest is a recurrent, narrative theme ofThe Mask of Fu Manchu,communicated by the ambiguous relations between Fu Manchu and Fah Lo See (Myrna Loy), his daughter.

In 1936, when the Nazis banned the novels of Sax Rohmer in Germany, because they believed him Jewish, Rohmer denied being racist and published a letter declaring himself "a good Irishman", yet was disingenuous about the why of the Nazi book-ban, because "my stories are not inimical to Nazi ideals."In science fiction cinema, the "futuristic Yellow Peril" is embodied by EmperorMing the Mercilessis an iteration of the Fu Manchu trope who is the nemesis of theFlash Gordon;likewise,Buck Rogersfights against the Mongol Reds, a Yellow Peril who conquered the U.S. in the 25th century.

Comic books

The Green Mask#6 p. 43, August 1941,Fox Feature Syndicate,art by Munson Paddock

In 1937, the publisherDC Comicsfeatured "Ching Lung" on the cover and in the first issue ofDetective Comics(March 1937). Years later, the character would be revisited inNew Super-Man(June 2017), where his true identity is revealed to be All-Yang, the villainous twin brother ofI-Ching,who deliberately cultivated the Yellow Peril image of Ching Lung to showSuper-Manhow the West caricaturized and vilified the Chinese.

In the late 1950s,Atlas Comics(Marvel Comics) publishedYellow Claw,a pastiche of the Fu Manchu stories.Unusually for the time, the racist imagery was counterbalanced by the Asian-American FBI agent,Jimmy Woo,as his principal opponent.

In 1964,Stan LeeandDon Heckintroduced, inTales of Suspense,theMandarin,a Yellow Peril-inspiredsupervillainandarchenemyofMarvel ComicssuperheroIron Man.InIron Man 3(2013), set in theMarvel Cinematic Universe,the Mandarin appears as the leader of theTen Ringsterrorist organization. HeroTony Stark(played byRobert Downey, Jr.) discovers that the Mandarin is an English actor,Trevor Slattery(Ben Kingsley), who was hired byAldrich Killian(Guy Pearce) as a cover for his own criminal activities. According to directorShane Blackand screenwriterDrew Pearce,making the Mandarin an impostor avoided Yellow Peril stereotyping while modernizing it with a message about theuse of fearby themilitary industrial complex.

In the 1970s,DC Comicsintroduced a clear Fu Manchu analogue in supervillainRa's al Ghul,created byDennis O'Neil,Neal AdamsandJulius Schwartz.While maintaining a level of racial ambiguity, the character's signature Fu Manchu beard and "Chinaman" clothing made him an instance of Yellow Peril stereotyping. When adapting the character forBatman Begins,screenwriterDavid Koeppand directorChristopher NolanhadKen Watanabeplay an imposter Ra's al Ghul to distract from his true persona, played byLiam Neeson.As withIron Man 3,this was this done to avoid the problematic origins of the character, making them a deliberate fake rather than a true portrayal of a different culture's insidious designs.

Marvel Comicsused Fu Manchu as the principal foe of his son,Shang-Chi,Master of Kung Fu. As the result of Marvel Comics later losing the rights to the Fu Manchu name, his later appearances give him the real name ofZheng Zu.TheMarvel Cinematic UniversefilmShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings(2021) replaces Fu Manchu withXu Wenwu(Tony Leung), an original character partially inspired by Zheng Zu and the Mandarin; thus downplaying yellow peril implications as Wenwu is opposed by an Asiansuperhero,his sonShang-Chi(Simu Liu), rather than Tony Stark, while omitting references to the Fu Manchu character.

See also

• Alien land laws
• Anti-Asian racism in the United States
• China threat theory
• Dusky Peril
• Examples of Yellowface
• Japanese Problem
• Jewish Bolshevism
• Model minority
• Red Chinese Battle Plan
• Red Scare
• Sinophobia
• Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States
• The White Man's Burden
• White Australia policy
• Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Publications

• Yellow Peril, Collection of British Novels 1895–1913,in 7 vols., edited by Yorimitsu Hashimoto, Tokyo: Edition Synapse.ISBN978-4-86166-031-3
• Yellow Peril, Collection of Historical Sources,in 5 vols., edited by Yorimitsu Hashimoto, Tokyo: Edition Synapse.ISBN978-4-86166-033-7
• Baron Suematsu in Europe during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05): His Battle with Yellow Peril,by Matsumura Masayoshi, translated by Ian Ruxton (lulu, 2011)
• Dickinson, Edward Ross (2002). "Sex, Masculinity, and the 'Yellow Peril': Christian von Ehrenfels' Program for a Revision of the European Sexual Order, 1902–1910".German Studies Review.25(2): 255–284.doi:10.2307/1432992.JSTOR1432992.PMID20373550.
• Klein, Thoralf (2015),The "Yellow Peril",EGO - European History Online,Mainz:Institute of European History,retrieved: March 17, 2021 (pdf).
• Palmer, JamesThe Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia,New York: Basic Books, 2009,ISBN0465022073.
• Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear, edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats.ISBN978-1781681237
• Shim, Doobo. "From yellow peril through model minority to renewed yellow peril."Journal of Communication Inquiry22.4 (1998): 385–409, in USonline

External links

• A Statement on Yellow
• From Yellow Peril to Yellow Fever The Representation of Asians from Anna May Wong to Lucy Liuby Krystle Doromal
• Yellowface! Racist Anti-Asian Stereotypes
• "Introduction,"Gerald Horne,Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire(New York; London: New York University Press, 2003).
• Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril: Foreign Postcards of the Russo-Japanese WarbyJohn W. Dower
• "The Unparalleled Invasion"Archived29 May 2014 at theWayback Machineby Jack London, clima xing in the total genocide of the Chinese.
• A Footnote on the Yellow PerilbyMark Schreiber
• Yellow Peril, Collection of British Novels 1895–1913in Chinese.
• Old Yellow Peril Propaganda
• Unsettling echoes of yesterday, when the yellow peril hysteria beganby Lynden Barber
• The Yellow Peril and the American Dreamby Catherine Chung
• The Yellow PerilbyJohn W. Dower
• French comic's 'Yellow Peril' cover upsets Chinese paper
• "'The Awakening of China': Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century"by Edwin Poon
• Is the Yellow Peril Dead?by Ellen Wu
• The Malleable Yet Undying Nature of the Yellow PerilArchived2 January 2015 at theWayback Machineby Tim Yang
• The Yellow Peril: Chinese-Americans in American Fiction 1850–1940 by William F. Wu