Fw: H-ASIA: "Yellow hordes" query - response

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

> H-ASIA
> April 24, 2011
>
> Further response re: 'yellow hordes' query
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> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
> Beware of parochialism. America was far from unique in its 19C responses
> to the Chinese and as other responses have noted the term 'Yellow Peril"
> was well known in Europe and elsewhere around the world.
>
> It is a mistake to assume that the Asian-American experience was either
> unique or special to the US.
>
> The American contribution to the prejudices of the times was the
> unpunished violence against Chinese, especially in the West Coast. I have
> mentioned this in earlier posts and a copy of a summary of anti-Chinese
> violence in North America was circulated. It is found in the Introduction
> of my new ANU online Murder on Flower Mountain database.
>
> The URL is https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/7273
>
> Ian Welch
> Canberra
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