Yellow Peril is a 1991 novel by Wang Lixiong

Wang Lixiong

Wang Lixiong is a Chinese writer and scholar, best known for his political prophecy fiction, Yellow Peril , which was ranked 41st in The 100 Most Influential Chinese Novels in 20th Centuryby Asia Weekly and has gained widespread popularity in China as well as worldwide media attention despite...

, written in Chinese

Chinese language

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 under the pseudonym Bao Mi (lit. "Secret"), about a civil war

Civil war

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 in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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 that becomes a nuclear exchange

Nuclear warfare

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 and soon engulfs the world, causing World War III

World War III

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. It is notable for Wang Lixiong's politics, a Chinese dissident and outspoken activist, its publication following Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

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, and its popularity due to bootleg distribution across China even when the book was banned by the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

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.

The book was published in 1991 by Mirror Books, a Chinese editor in Toronto

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, Canada

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, and soon became a best-seller.

Translation

• China Tidal Wave, Wang Lixiong, Michael Dillon, translation Anton Platero, Editeur Global Books Ltd. (UK), April 2007, EAN13 9781905246502; University of Hawaii Press
  University of Hawaii Press
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  ; April 2008, ISBN 1905246501