Fw: H-ASIA: "yellow hordes" --a query

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

> H-ASIA
> April 23, 2011
>
> "Yellow hordes" terminology--a query
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> From: Baruch Boxer <baruch.boxer@gmail.com>
>
> Following on the review of Michael Keevak's _Becoming Yellow_,
> I enjoyed Shawn Mchale's notes on two early GWU alumni.
>
> It piqued my long standing curiosity about the etiology of the racist
> term "yellow hordes," frequently appearing in British early twentieth
> century commercial and popular media.
>
> --
> Baruch Boxer, Professor Emeritus
> Human Ecology/Geography/Environmental Science,
> Rutgers University
> Visiting Scholar, Stanford University,
> Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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> Ed. note: The other phrase which I have associated, perhaps erroneously,
> with North American racism -- 'yellow peril'-- may also be addressed in
> response to Baruch's query. Alas, I gave away my copy of Harold Issacs
> _Scratches on our Minds: American Images of China and India_ (New York:
> John Day Co, 1958; reprinted with new preface White Plains, NY: M. E.
> Sharpe, 1980) ISBN 0873321618 (pbk.) which might merit examination here.
> FFC
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