Yellow Peril (novel)

For other uses, see Yellow Peril (disambiguation).

Yellow Peril (Chinese: 黃禍; pinyin: Huáng Huò) is a 1991 novel by Wang Lixiong,^[1] written in Chinese under the pseudonym Bao Mi (lit. "Secret"), about a civil war in the People's Republic of China that becomes a nuclear exchange and soon engulfs the world, causing World War III. It is notable for Wang Lixiong's politics, a Chinese dissident and outspoken activist, its publication following Tiananmen Square protests of 1989,^[2] and its popularity due to bootleg distribution across China even when the book was banned by the Chinese Communist Party.

Yellow Peril

Author	Lixiong Wang
Original title	黄禍 : 新世紀版
Language	Chinese
Subject	Nuclear warfare, China
Genre	Science fiction
Published	Taibei Shi : Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si, 2008
Publication place	China
Media type	Book
Pages	464
ISBN	9789862130902
OCLC	319691593

The book was published in 1991 by Mirror Books, a Chinese editor in Toronto, Canada,^[3] and soon became a best-seller.^[4]

Translation

• China Tidal Wave, Wang Lixiong, Michael Dillon, translation Anton Platero, Editeur Global Books Ltd. (UK), April 2007, University of Hawaii Press; April 2008, ISBN 1-905246-50-1

References

1. Lee, Haiyan (June 2010). "From the Iron Rice Bowl to the Beggar's Bowl; What Good is (Chinese) Literature?". Telos. 2010 (151): 129–149. doi:10.3817/0610151129. S2CID 147139710.
2. Zhao, Henry Y. H. (2003). "A Fearful Symmetry: The Novel of the Future in Twentieth-Century China". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 66 (3): 461. doi:10.1017/s0041977x03000326. S2CID 162427376.
3. Generations, Legitimacy, and Political Ideas in China: The End of Polarization or the End of Ideology?
4. China Tidal Wave