ReviewThe Yellow Peril: Chinese Americans in American Fiction, 1850 - 1940:A revised version of Wu's doctoral dissertation, this critical study compares the literary depiction of Chinese Americans to the history of Chinese Americans during the period covered. It received rave reviews from the The London Times Literary Supplement and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others, and was a finalist for the Thorpe Menn Award."William Wu's book moves the whole topic of fictional treatments of Chinese-Americans to a totally new level of sophistication, and it is essential reading for any teachers eager to develop new course materials on ethnic groups in America. Though personally involved in his topic, Wu is fair and judicious, and he gives all the information teachers would need to start assembling their own selections of effective readings. Nor is the book just for teachers: the general reader will come away with a good sense of how vividly even the 'pulps' can help us evaluate a troubled phase of national history, and how the shoddiest fictons can reveal far more than their authors ever... intended!" Jonathan D. Spence, Yale University."Wu does excellent service by exploring how American fiction has depicted Chinese Americans. Wu sets the authors in their socio-historical period and offers his own sound model for nonracist literature. This scholarly readable work is suitable for informed lay readers and specialists." Milton Mehzer, Library Journal."Thanks to the author's scholarly distance from his material, this account of Chinese Americans in American fiction will prove to be absolutely fascinating.... Wu writes with a precision and a clear, crisp narrative style that never stumbles into academic jargon.... He never acts as literary adversary... but his message is clear, nevertheless. The 'peril' of the advancing yellow hordes' has always been an American -- not Chinese -- creation." Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle.This is an excellent, well-researched book on the subject. I highly recommend it. - Derwin Mak, author, "The Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome in Chinese North American Science Fiction and Fantasy", New York Review of Science Fiction, 2018.