http://www.njedge.net/~knapp/NewsOfFu.htm

From the page: “”Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government–which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”

— Nayland Smith to Dr. Petrie,
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu,

Sax Rohmer drew on fears of the ‘Yellow Peril’ which still have resonances today despite the prevalence of ‘Political Correctness’.

You can read this story for free at Project Gutenberg and come to your own conclusions:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=173

Many thanks to atongchan http://atongchan.stumbleupon.com/ who started me on this train of thought with this link:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0407/p09s03-coop.html

Which attempts to move beyond old stereotypes of China.