Fw: H-ASIA: "yellow hordes" --a query (response)

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: "yellow hordes" --a query (response)

> H-ASIA
> April 23, 2011
>
> Responses re: "Yellow hordes" query
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> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
> With reference to Dr. Belshaw's comment--I believe that the group was
> called the Golden Horde--not 'yellow.'
>
> On the racism issue, the following article merits reading.
>
> Gregory Blue, "Gobineau on China: Race Theory, the 'Yellow Peril,' and the
> Critique of Modernity" _Journal of World History_, Vol. 10, No. 1
> (Spring, 1999), pp. 93-139
> Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20078751 .
>
> Google throws up stacks:
> http://www.cartoonstock.com/vintage/directory/y/yellow_peril.asp
>
> I could not find the origin of the image below but it relates, almost
> certainly, to the 1890s, and probably the Boxers. It is part of an
> interesting Wiki entry http://www.thefullwiki.org/Yellow_Peril
>
> One of the most descriptive, if not the most descriptive, of 'Yellow
> Peril' items appeared in the Australian journal 'The Bulletin". 'The
> Mongolian Octopus—His Grip on Australia' The Bulletin 21 August 1886. I
> can send a copy to anyone interested but could not add it to this note.
>
> Ian Welch,
> Canberra
>
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