Yellow Peril
The Yellow Peril is a term from the colonial period to which the United States and the European colonial powers attempted resentment against Asian nations, especially China, to stir up.
"Creator" of the term in French was probably the Russian-born sociologist Jacques Novikow with his essay Le péril jaune from the year 1897.
A similar warning is the 1895 from sketches of the German Emperor Wilhelm II of Hermann Knackfuß -made paintings peoples of Europe, maintain your most sacred possessions represent, on the one zoom floating on a dark storm cloud from the east Buddha is to see the of the personifications European nations ( Marianne, Germania, Italia, Britannia, etc.) is observed. Behind this is a subliminal recognition of the potential of East Asia, the thought capable around the turn of the 20th century to break the European-North American world power.
In English, the term was coined by a series appearing weekly short stories by MP Shiel, which were published in 1898 under the title The Yellow Danger, and in later editions called The Yellow Peril received, a term that is used in English today. Shiel, who was himself discriminated against because of his mulatto origin, announced here his anti-Chinese feelings run free and thus gained great notoriety. The occasion was the murder of missionaries in 1897 in Kiau - Chou, which led to the deployment of troops to protect China. 1899, with the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion, and in 1905, as in the Russo-Japanese War, a Far Eastern power defeated a European first time, the concept gained further dissemination.
In German, finally, the term is probably the writer Stefan von Kotze and whose book The Yellow Peril ( 1900) back.
In the 1980s, when Japan and the tiger economies seemed to take over the economic dominance, the term used in the United States came again into use.
After Harald Müller takes Samuel P. Huntington, if he has a confrontation with the " Islamic- Confucian coalition against everything Western " conjures up with his notion of the "clash of civilizations", pointing to behind the metaphors " Turks before Vienna " and " Yellow Peril " lying, " deeply rooted in Western cultures historical fears threat " back.
Further use of the term
" Yellow Peril " (Yellow Peril ) is also the nickname of a yellow sculpture by Ron Robertson - Swann, which was built in 1980 in Melbourne, Australia. The actual name is " Vault ". Initially, the nickname of opponents of this sculpture was used, but today it has established itself.
The last biplane of the U.S. Navy, the Naval Aircraft Factory N3N was also called Yellow Peril because of its yellow cover.
The term Yellow Peril is now also occasionally used in the sport, such as the club's colors due for the German football club Borussia Dortmund.