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China - a Yellow Peril? (Paperback, New)
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China - a Yellow Peril? (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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If some Victorian antiquarians are to be believed, contact between
the Chinese Empire, and other Middle Eastern and Western Empires
goes back to long before the birth of Christ; such as the ancient
Egyptians and the Roman Empire. A Roman coin from the the time of
Hadrian in the second century of the Christian era was found in
Oshkosh in Wisconsin in 1883, thought at the time to have been
carried there across the Bering Straits to Wisconsin by way of
Alaska by a Chinese person. Muirheads book China: A Yellow Peril?
Western Relationships with the Chinese From the Seventeenth to the
Twenty-First Centuries looks at a time period long after these very
early contacts, to the beginning of trading links between the West
and China in the Seventeenth Century, with the arrival of the
Jesuit intellectual and religious leaders. The impact of these
individuals as well as the British, French, Russians, Japanese,
Germans and Americans in the following three hundred or so years
created a tension that resulted negatively in the West and
elsewhere in the racist Yellow Peril scare; and positively in
developments such as an appreciation of China as a cultured
civilisation with trade in Chinoiserie and food stuffs. In fact,
between the late eighteenth century and the early decades of the
twentieth century there was a debate between detractors and
supporters of China as either barbarian or civilised, with
relationships between British and Chinese in the colony of Hong
Kong perhaps surprisingly surviving the complex change of events in
China that led to the rise of communism in rural and urban China
from the 1920s onwards. The Yellow Peril scare, essentially a fear
of Chinese expansionism and morals, is the main subject matter of
this book. Muirhead concludes that with the pressures brought upon
the world by Chinas massive economic growth and pollution comes the
risk of a revival of the Yellow Peril scare." Muirhead hopes his
book will dispel a tendency amongst some commentators to portray
everything in black and white and an unnecessary overwhelming guilt
for colonialism. In fact, there were good imperialists and
Victorians, and patriotic Chinese communists.
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