72 pages
250 x 168mm
ISBN-10: 0 948080 97 3
ISBN-13: 978 0 948080 97 5

Chinese people are often portrayed in media and films as a closed, mysterious community, master-minded behind the scenes by cruel gangsters and drug barons.

This book confounds these stereotypes and exposes the systematic nature of racist ideology through a critical analysis of the myth of the 'Yellow Peril', epitomised by the character Fu Manchu, the stereotypical Oriental master villain popularised in fiction and the film of the 1920s. The myth is contrasted with the lives of the Chinese communities in Britain, and the contextualised historical relations between Britain and China.

The persistence of the underlying themes and images in popular culture has implications for the present-day Chinese in Britain and this book should be read by all those concerned to develop antiracism in education and in the wider community.