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The huge Chinese man knelt, a grotesque figure, by a table. "We'll see what Charlie has dug up out here," he said, and led the way to the lanai. Fu Manchu in 1913, which was followed by a number of other books about the character. Presented to the public in the novel The Insidious Dr. These ideas.) The Fu Manchu character created by Sax Rohmer was first

Yellow peril." (Today, these phrases are offensive during the time,Įthnocentrically-centered people were unaware of the offensive nature of Literary archetype of "the sinister Oriental" or, even worse, "the Or characters, writers often relied much on the imagination and littleĮarl Derr Biggers had already been exposed to the The unknown sometimes inspires fear or discomfort, and the In an era when manyĪmericans were ethnocentric, understanding of cultures and sensitivity TheĬharacter became immensely popular and inspired more than forty-fiveīut it wasn't always so. Other books maintained the popularity that the first achieved. When Biggers wrote the first novel, it was an instant hit.

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