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Yellow Peril was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to the United States. The term refers to the skin color of east Asians, and the racist notion that Asians were a threat to civilization. The phrase "yellow peril" was common in the newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst. The variation "yellow terror" was also used.
The "yellow peril" manifested itself in government policy with the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which reduced Chinese immigration from 30,000 per year to just 105. The labor leader Samuel Gompers argued, "The superior whites had to exclude the inferior Asiatics, by law, or, if necessary, by force of arms."
In 1920, the author Lothrop Stoddard wrote The Rising Tide of Color arguing against Asian immigration, claiming immigrants threatened American society, with their presence a "peril."
In the 1980s the Yellow Peril was revived as the US was in intense competition with Japan over industrial supremacy. Many believed that the beating to death of Vincent Chin was a part of US sentiment.
The Yellow Peril is a major topic of study in Asian-American studies.
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Sax Rohmer in writing about Dr. Fu Manchu in his series of novels referred to him as representative of the Yellow Peril.
The "Yellow Peril" was a frequent theme of pulp fiction in the early 20th century.
Yellow Peril is also a derogative name for a controversial public sculpture in Melbourne, Australia: Vault.
Yellow Peril was also the primary nickname for the Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary training aircraft.
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