‘His eyes were literally on fire’
David Trotter: Fu Manchu, 5 March 2015
The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia
by Christopher Frayling.
Thames and Hudson, 360 pp., £24.95, October 2014,978 0 500 25207 9 Show More
by Christopher Frayling.
Thames and Hudson, 360 pp., £24.95, October 2014,
“... Dickens and Richard Horne wrote a piece for Household Words that contrasted the wonders of the Crystal Palace with the quaintness of an accompanying display of artefacts from China at a gallery in Hyde Park Place. ‘It is very curious,’ Dickens and Horne noted, ‘to have the Exhibition of a people who came to a dead stop, Heaven knows how many hundreds ... ”