This is the ultimate of prejudice expressed in the United States following the great California gold rush of 1849. Chinese workers were brought in as indentured servants to do work the miners didn't want to waste their time on and to form the work force for the first railroad across America. Once the railroad was completed (1869) the masses of Chinese represented a peril to the American worker. Hatred and prejudice erupted in what was known as the Yellow Peril. This prejudice led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 out of fear that the West Coast of America was endangered of becoming Sinitic.
The term used to describe the presence of Chinese in America, who, in theory, under economically difficult times, took jobs away from Whites.
the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples
Western term for perceived threat of Japanese imperialism around 1900; met by increased Western imperialism in region. (p. 826)
Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a racist phrase that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States. The term, a color metaphor for race, refers to the skin color of East Asians, and the xenophobia that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages, standards of living and indeed, Western civilization itself. The phrase "yellow peril" was common in the newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst.
Yellow Peril is a 1991 novel by Wang Lixiong, written under the pseudonym Bao Mi, 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, and its popularity due to bootleg distribution across China even when the book was banned by the Communist Party of China.