Serial Fu Manchu: The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology

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Serial Fu Manchu In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ Also in this series: Karen Kuo, East Is West and West Is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America Kieu-linh Caroline Valverde, Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora lan P. Duong, Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism Kristi Brian, Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship Belinda Kong, Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture Bindi V. shah, Laotian Daughters: Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice Cherstin M. lyon, Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory shelley sang-hee lee, Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America isabelle thuy Pelaud, This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Christian Collet and Pei-te lien, eds., The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans Min Zhou, Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation Kathleen s. Yep, Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground Benito M. Vergara Jr., Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City Jonathan Y. okamura, Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai‘i sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. hsu, eds., Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture K. scott Wong, Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War lisa Yun, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba estella habal, San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-eviction Movement thomas P. Kim, The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition sucheng Chan, ed., The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings A list of additional titles in this series appears at the back of this book temple university press philadelphia Serial Fu Manchu The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology Ruth Mayer teMPle UniVersitY Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2014 by temple University All rights reserved Published 2014 library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mayer, ruth, 1965– serial Fu Manchu : the Chinese supervillain and the spread of Yellow Peril ideology / ruth Mayer. pages cm. — (Asian American history and Culture) includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-4399-1055-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-4399-1056-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-4399-1057-3 (e-book) 1. Chinese Americans in mass media. 2. Fu Manchu, Doctor (Fictitious character). 3. Chinese in literature. i. title. P94.5.C57M39 2013 305.8951—dc23 2013013286 the paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American national standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library Materials, Ansi Z39.48-1992 Printed in the United states of America 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 ...