Sascha Auerbach race, law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" Imperial Britain is really confusing considering how in the 19th and 20th century, the media, politicians, trade unionists, writers, actors, filmmakers, not least the police and justice officials across the UK in the field the stubborn and strict implementation of the framework and running racist, Sinophobic judgments deliberately whipped anti-Chinese feelings of the population, and developed terrible, racist stories of the Chinese people. Auerbach book is filled from cover to provide detailed evidence of the "yellow peril" and other myths about the infamous "John Chinaman," care of the rich archival and media sources while extracted cover. In its effort to show that the odd dog-eared copy of Fu Manchu novel encounters a car boot sale is not outrageous anomaly, but represents a mainstream beliefs of his time. The book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on ethnic Chinese in the UK, because it is the material, social and political environment and the depth of the vision of some of the racial issues that now only vaguely known to a handful of worn-out slogans, names, topics and from another time. A large part of the effort that has gone to collect evidence and to create this excellent volume gives us the opportunity to get an unprecedented and very detailed understanding of the main characters and the outlets of a multi-racism is Chinese in Britain and its to take colonies. The proof is rich and clear and eloquently presented, excellent indicators of the historical context on how those ideas of China's rise in the entire British Empire, which serves a variety of needs

"colonial administrators and politicians in the Transvaal, Hong Kong and Australia, and the union leaders in Britain and shipping magnate. racism rich material has been is skilfully described as a part of the social and moral discourses of the wider society, leaves the reader a vivid impression of how common and normal, anti-Chinese bigotry once was. Sources in the press -. kept pulp literature and official archives, which belongs to the author and borrowed, revealing a variety of different types of prejudice from various groups of human voices, word for word in quotes to life to Auerbach's account that a personal idiosyncrasies and individual modulations, which ultimately pretty boring and monotonous, may be what is giving to: the articulation of racist stereotypes. Auerbach is huge collection of scattered sources praise on the basis of integrity and thoroughness his account and his subtle analysis of racism as a cultural phenomenon for its systematic study. The book is easy to read, beautifully written, unpretentious, a little underplayed style that can stand out the contents of the grotesque, hyperbolic absurdity and self-sufficient. This allows the reader to draw the sound and reflects the commitment of questions. I had to ask you if the main characters were cynical manipulators of the breed for their own purposes or fools believe what they said and wrote, despite the glaring evidence of its falsehood.

The human cost of a deliberate invention claims, manipulation and distortion of the facts and malicious slander recycling was too big to ignore: people died, was arrested, exiled, and she used the terrible ways because of what then ridiculous and absurd costs. Just because we are, where after a few decades to the racism of the past, obscene and ridiculous, can not find it, and should not be laughing. Sascha Auerbach focuses on his account in London Limehouse Chinatown, skillfully tells the binding to a specific place and allows its demise in 1930, destroyed in the blitz in 1940, and the final demolition in 1950 to the comfort of the story to stop. This is of course necessary that the 1940s were the other things in the minds of people, and the empire began to fall slowly to ask many assumptions had lived out of bigotry. Nevertheless, the story ends around the Second World War is a great shame, because only wonder how the anti-Chinese feelings in the shadow of the Holocaust done in the era of human rights ideals of the United Nations, and post-colonialism and multiculturalism. Did they forget or are they continuing to a new life under a new identity? Auerbach book rightly only the history of London's Chinatown in a century of colonial anti-Chinese racism. This focus means that many important questions have not been addressed; Writers, for example, ignores the obvious question of anti-Chinese racism racism in relation to another time and in general; different and attitudes towards blacks, my Jews, Arabs, Chinese and Japanese, that the exclusive focus on China can distort the image. While there are some indications of concerns about miscegenation, he avoided the other aspects of the development of scientific progress at the time, to genetic inheritance to his discussions of eugenics, eugenics and other ideas today as false, which had undoubtedly a strong influence on the anti-Chinese racism together. He also avoids possible to compare and to contact the horror stories of China's poor and genres of Gothic tales of evil, corruption, and the dark forces that became so popular in the 19th century in Great Britain, for example, the novels of Robert Lewis Stevenson, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley: What, if anything, Sax Rohmer novels set Fu Manchu adjacent to the existing dark trend in literature? Was the main character mean something that was deeper and more fundamental than angst directed races against the Chinese? He does not mention Fu Manchu in the afterlife on the international rock scene as the adrenaline-punk and heavy metal visions of destruction and total power that a dark and sinister side of Sax Rohmer character, nothing to pull out of its racist connotations . He tells carefully the stories of politics, administration, media people, business people, representatives of trade unions, as well as artists who work together to create fantasy racist public

showing how they closely with a mixture of economic interests and the Empire perceived need to control and build the colonial population based, but he did not dare take to discuss the topic of his speech. Source selection is also in the sense that very narrow, that the descriptions of Chinese around the world and in China published in the mainstream scientific and popular books, magazines and brochures, especially in ethnographic accounts, memoirs, travel stories, cultural studies, and Orientalist works on Chinese civilization not heard omission on the rich church and missionary society, the media and archives associated with the Christian in China and the Chinese themselves elsewhere. Relevance is, of course, that racist, "a Chinese puzzle in Auerbach are documented perceptions have far from representative of the public images of China and the Chinese, not the end of anti-Chinese bigotry in many of these works, but many very different points of view, more complex sentences that show the cultural admiration, empathy, and in some cases, a strong anti-racist statements. humans who lived treated by the time of Auerbach book was so exposed to a much wider cacophony of voices when it public to the appreciation of China and the Chinese came. Yet Auerbach is probably right to limit his account, his concise and simple presentation of embarrassing facts, and its low-key analysis produces the maximum effect on his readers that the attention to which really shameful phenomenon. Yet it's a shame, have not been studied because of the general meaning of the phenomenon, and because the awareness of the broader social and cultural discourses could throw a lot of insightful and for the light of China's anti-racist discourse. Auerbach book provides a comprehensive analysis of the major ammunition: it shows how elegant racial prejudice is built. The judgments of immorality

crime, lack of hygiene, ethnic otherness, rudeness, low class, promiscuity and dangerous sexuality, dishonesty, violence and many other aspects mix came with a view of China than the other. The crime was adopted in the cases described promissory many cases; formal rights are often circumvented; In practice, the police and other government officials, judges and the media was the uncertainty, a sense of subconscious risks on the basis of hearsay and invention, it is to create impressive mentioned in the media files to the public. What the Chinese people had rights, laws were changed to revoke these rights. With the Chinese, is probably not in a position to accept the ways of the British, in fact, this approach was comparable to them. Example for their treacherous List Collision, in which only one of the Chinese was slightly injured and caused damage to the decrease in the media and the memory as the "London Tong resentment" (alluding to the violence of warfare in different pliers San Francisco's Chinatown) and the fact that the Chinese violence was waived a manifestation of their devious nature. The starting point for a broader approach is exactly the intersection of media, and without prejudice to public order and the dim target specific for the association between different discrete policy areas groups, in particular, social classes and ethnic groups. It is common to observe that the modern civic pride with the general hygiene, courtesy, public order, the correct sexual behavior, moral behavior, stable, honesty, reason, rationality, law-abiding, religious righteousness, and so on, the state authorities , courts and the Church responds involved, the police, of course, that the horrors of corruption, dishonesty, drunkenness, disease, insanity, immorality, stable, crime, cunning, infidelity and rudeness were able to conceive. Appearance of the infection and the association of moral crimes used to keep the working class in its own place, and as a pretext for the expulsion and exclusion of people of other races by the government authorities and the de facto disenfranchisement. Discourse be seen from this perspective, is a great social significance and defines the social mainstream and create a class and race control.

Race and class identity is difficult to "other" outside the norms of society, and thus the normal rules of public order. Where Chinese men were better and caring men white women, and sober, less stubborn and reliable worker, "the reality is" born of the public opinion, arguing that it would lead to white women astray, in the corruption that often opium and paves the way for the degeneration of the white race. Then You searched marriages and cohabitation Chinese men and women in the UK found nothing illegal, "but was forced to note their concerns and disgust in the case notes. Their degenerate character and indirectly the debt was taken for granted, and they" only "the Form factor, which creates the need to escape in order to bend the rules. Auerbach book, but never had the time evolution of the bias analyzes; to adapt the various needs of the labor market to the Chinese workers in the kingdom is manifested in many contradictions racist invention, and over time, the media and the authorities gradually to new arguments and aims to negotiate to different conditions. Political work in the Transvaal and Australia against China was difficult effects in the UK, but in the end had the Chinese invention of gang violence, the seduction of innocent women and their role in the opium of the British, in short, a myth about China's brass unrest, corruption and decay of British society, create been replaced when the previous statements obsolete. Those of us who do not know that, despite the race equality policy, political correctness, and a strong indication ethnic unity, it is still visible today in the UK reflects the bias so pervasive in just a couple of generations ago a little book that is going to find resolve. I'm probably not the only one who thinks that the analysis of the statements now show in China and the Chinese media, the politicians, the police, the courts, government officials and activists, the diversity of the same in the field of racial bigotry, malice and ignorance, though often less openly articulated in offensive opportunities. We do not need to go far, look at the media coverage of Morecambe Bay disaster, the tragedy of Dover Harbour and political debates, policy, police and judicial practice related to immigration, the Chinese snakeheads and gang violence, seemingly calibrated claims about China's repressive and totalitarian state , the exploitation of workers in sweatshops, and China's aspirations to be a great power. Issues of race and prejudice have found a new life.