The Yellow Peril in the Western Imagination

Polluting minds
There is something horribly familiar about the west's attacks on China for daring to develop: it's called racism. Brendan O'Neill

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brendan_oneill/2007/07/polluting_minds.html

"[P]eriodic transformations in dominant Western images [the East], from positive to negative and back again, indicate the tremendous malleability of perceptions of the 'other' in response to specific historical circumstances, and especially in response to circumstances in Western nations themselves."