Bill and Sue-On Hillman
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PHOTO ALBUM 7
The Chinese in Canada VII
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ANTI-CHINESE RACIST CARTOONS

SINOPHOBIA
The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Specter) is a racist colour-metaphor that represents the peoples of East Asia as an existential danger to the Western world.
As a psycho-cultural menace from the Eastern world, fear of the Yellow Peril is racial, not national, a fear derived not from concern with a specific source of danger or from any one people or country, but from a vaguely ominous, existential fear of the faceless, nameless hordes of yellow people opposite the Western world. 

As a form of xenophobia, the Yellow Terror is fear of the Oriental, non-white Other, a racialist fantasy presented in the book 
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard.


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CHINA: The Cake of Kings and ... of Emperors:
An angry Mandarin bureaucrat watches Queen Victoria (British Empire), Kaiser Wilhelm II (German Empire),
Tsar Nicholas II (Russian Empire), Marianne (Third French Republic),
and a Samurai (Empire of Japan) discuss their partitioning of China into colonies.


OPIUM WARS
1. The British came into China with their gunboats and their opium.
That’s how they conquered the country:
They blew up its cities, and they forced them to take opium.
They fought the Opium Wars because the Chinese were trying to stop them from bringing opium in.
2. 1864 Cartoon from an American newspaper showing
John Bull (England) forcing China to accept opium.



A Chinatown Opium Den ::  A 3-D Stereoview Card from 1899


View our compendium of hundreds of 1820-1920 3-D Stereoviews of China at
GALLERIES 1-60
GALLERIES 61+


1. The racist cartoon of The Yellow Terror in all His Glory (1899)
depicts an anti-colonial Qing Dynasty opium-smoking Chinese man
standing over a fallen white woman, who represents the Western world


 1. "A Heathen Chinese in British Columbia."
This is a cartoon from the Canadian Illustrated News, 1879.
2. Uncle Sam holding a bottle of Magic Washer and kicking a Chinese man off a cliff
as others flee to the sea with captions
"Don't Use This If You Want To Be Dirty" and "The Chinese Must Go"

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SINOPHOBIA



 


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