שאלה | Question: What does the term “the yellow peril” refer to?

Question: What does the term “the yellow peril” refer to?

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		A) French fear of Chinese settlers who corrupted French society
		B) British fear, centered in the mid-19th century, of the opium trade between China and Britain
		C) American fear, in the late 19th century, that Chinese immigrants would corrupt American society
		D) Chinese fear of being dependent on drugs, after losing the Opium Wars

Explanation: In the lectures, “the yellow peril” is framed as a late-19th-century American racial panic about Chinese immigrants as a threatening presence that would “corrupt” society—often linked to anti-Chinese politics and the stigmatization of opium dens. (Lecture/Reading: Wright, Not Just a “Place for the Smoking of Opium”; also fits the “reverse colonialism” anxiety discussed in Ram, Squaring the Circle.)