Big Trouble in Little China at Forty
On Wednesday 2 July 1986, 20th Century Fox opened a strange and expensive film in 1,053 American cinemas and watched it sink. Big Trouble…
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Chinese diaspora
Why the ‘Yellow Peril’ Took Hold
On 26 September 1895 Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote from his hunting lodge at Rominten to his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II. The development of the…
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The Long Making of the Han People
According to China’s seventh national census, carried out in 2020, 1,286,311,334 people in mainland China identified as Han, or 91.11% of the population. Add…
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The Long History of the Yellow Peril
In the autumn of 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm II sent Tsar Nicholas II an unusual present. It was a picture drawn by the history painter…
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