WGST 307: Geisha Robots, Cyberpunk Warriors, and Asian Futures: Yellow Peril Tropes: The Octopus

This is the official, ever-expanding archive of the Yellow Peril! site. Here, you can explore the images, artifacts, and texts that have seared the imminent threat of the Yellow Peril–and other imagined racial terrors–into the collective Western psyche.

Illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Try searching 'cartoon' or 'wasp'.

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum houses the world’s largest collection of materials related to cartoons and comics, including original art, books, magazines, journals, comic books, graphic novels, archival materials, and newspaper comic strip pages and clippings.

Imperial Japan’s 1904–05 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be depicted internationally in postcards is captured here in dramatic images from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Click the link on the right, 'image gallery'.

American war posters and other war-related ephemera from various United States governement agencies or private publishers. Broad catagories present include: bonds and war finance, civil defense, civilian participation (food supply, health and safety, labor, non-combatant service, rationing and conservation, war production, etc.), espionage, military operations, military recruiting, international relations (pro-Allied or anti-Axis propaganda), and patriorism. Try searching for Japan.