The Yellow Peril Quotes

“The popular visual imagery of China, as The Times correspondent suggested, came from pantomime and music hall in pre-cinema days; together with comics, press and book illustrations. Reminiscences by visitors to China sometimes noted that this was how they actually saw Peking when first they arrived. Then they discovered that the pantomimes were really about England in fancy dress.”
― Christopher Frayling, The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia: Dr. Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia

“he always stressed that ‘one could go down from floor to floor far below street level and find … yellow warrens’. A literally underground culture, already a journalistic cliché.”
― Christopher Frayling, The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia: Dr. Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia

“Having failed the Civil Service entrance examinations, he had become – she recalled – a clerk at the London office of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank on 31 Lombard Street, at the age of eighteen – one of his ‘fellow employees’ there had been the young P. G. Wodehouse”
― Christopher Frayling, The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia: Dr. Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia

“Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on her visit to Beijing back in September 1982, had encountered a similar problem: the interpreter was heard to call her ‘The Quite Honourable Margaret Thatcher’. On the other hand, she took some persuading to stop using the word ‘Chinamen’.”
― Christopher Frayling, The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia: Dr. Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia