THE MYSTERY OF DR. FU MANCHU (1923) – One of the earliest, if not THE earliest, big screen adaptations of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels, which launched in 1913. The tales depicted the brilliant Chinese figure Dr. Fu Manchu at most plotting global domination but most often uniting many Far Eastern races against White Colonial nations to drive them out of Asia.
Yes, these stories have quite a bit wrong with them given their bigoted, unfair caricatures of Chinese people and other Asians. Personally, I would never expose children to them as they require adult minds to sort through ugly wording and concepts. Continue reading
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