Add to ORKGAs England suffered heavy casualties at the front during World War One, the nation closed ranks against outsiders at home. England sought to reaffirm its racial dominance at the heart of the empire, and the Chinese in London became the principal scapegoat for anti-foreign sentiment. A combination of propaganda and popular culture, from the daily paper to the latest theatre sensation, fanned the flames of national resentment into a raging Sinophobia. Opium smoking, gambling and interracial romance became synonymous with London's Limehouse Chinatown, which was exoticised by Sax Rohmer's evil mastermind Fu Manchu and Thomas Burke's tales of lowlife love. England's Yellow Peril exploded in the midst of a catastrophic war and defined the represe...
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the Fi...
International audienceThe reasons for Chinese Emigration to America and elsewhere were largely econo...
As an antithesis to the narrative of European superiority, the fear of Japan and China has had a pla...
Chinese people are often portrayed in media and films as a closed, mysterious community, master-mind...
Before the Second World War, the majority of London’s modest Chinese population –consisting of appro...
The purpose of this paper is to clarify British images of Asia, especially China and Japan in the tu...
This paper focuses on popular perceptions of the Chinese community in the UK in the 19th and early 2...
By the end of the nineteenth century the pernicious racial term “yellow peril” had entered the commo...
On 25 December 1941, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese, symbolizing the end of British rule since 1842....
International audienceThe concern here is with British representations of so-called Chinese characte...
On January 15, 1857, as the Second Opium War raged, bread distributed by the Esing bakery to Hong Ko...
Before the Second World War, the majority of London’s modest Chinese population –consisting of appro...
The Opium Wars had been forced by Britain in retaliation for the Chinese court's refusal to allow th...
The clash between Great Britain and China in 1839 to 1842 was not only a typical 19th-century imperi...
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese ...
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the Fi...
International audienceThe reasons for Chinese Emigration to America and elsewhere were largely econo...
As an antithesis to the narrative of European superiority, the fear of Japan and China has had a pla...
Chinese people are often portrayed in media and films as a closed, mysterious community, master-mind...
Before the Second World War, the majority of London’s modest Chinese population –consisting of appro...
The purpose of this paper is to clarify British images of Asia, especially China and Japan in the tu...
This paper focuses on popular perceptions of the Chinese community in the UK in the 19th and early 2...
By the end of the nineteenth century the pernicious racial term “yellow peril” had entered the commo...
On 25 December 1941, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese, symbolizing the end of British rule since 1842....
International audienceThe concern here is with British representations of so-called Chinese characte...
On January 15, 1857, as the Second Opium War raged, bread distributed by the Esing bakery to Hong Ko...
Before the Second World War, the majority of London’s modest Chinese population –consisting of appro...
The Opium Wars had been forced by Britain in retaliation for the Chinese court's refusal to allow th...
The clash between Great Britain and China in 1839 to 1842 was not only a typical 19th-century imperi...
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese ...
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the Fi...
International audienceThe reasons for Chinese Emigration to America and elsewhere were largely econo...
As an antithesis to the narrative of European superiority, the fear of Japan and China has had a pla...