Yellow Peril (novel)

Yellow Peril
AuthorLixiong Wang
Original title黄禍 : 新世紀版
LanguageChinese
SubjectNuclear warfare, China
GenreScience fiction
PublishedTaibei Shi : Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si, 2008
Publication placeChina
Media typeBook
Pages464
ISBN9789862130902
OCLC319691593

Yellow Peril (Chinese: 黃禍; pinyin: Huáng Huò) is a 1991 novel by Wang Lixiong,[1] written in Chinese under the pseudonym Bao Mi (lit. "Secret"), about a civil war in the People's Republic of China that becomes a nuclear exchange and soon engulfs the world, causing World War III. It is notable for Wang Lixiong's politics, a Chinese dissident and outspoken activist, its publication following Tiananmen Square protests of 1989,[2] and its popularity due to bootleg distribution across China even when the book was banned by the Chinese Communist Party.

The book was published in 1991 by Mirror Books, a Chinese editor in Toronto, Canada,[3] and soon became a best-seller.[4]

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