THE CLEANSING OF CHINA

Well, now you know. I myself find it surprising that it took eight posts until someone figured out you had posted "The Unparalleled Invasion". Personally, I recognized it right away--this kind of genocidal fantasy isn't easily forgotten once you've read it.

And it incidentally reminds us what kind of racist stuff people routinely got away with a century ago.

To be fair, at least two of us knew what was going on ahead of time. ;)

So SM Stirling ripped off Jack London to create the Domination of the Draka? I thought at first that this was the Domination with the Chinese a version of the Draka. :eek:

That someone wrote a novel like this in all seriousness......:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Different times, Snake.
 
That Jack London actually wrote this is appalling (and shows the amount of racism that existed 100 years ago, as another pointed out).

I would have used a quote from Billy Madison (for those of you who have seen the movie, you know the quote, from the principal in the decathalon scene) to criticize this, but I don't want Ian to ban me for insulting you.

That is all.
 
Well that was ASB and unpleasant to read. Bioweapons aren't that effective. Also, China becoming a superpower in relative peace would preclude a total war against it.
 
To be honest, I had only read about the story, though I'm not sure if it was in Thomas Disch's "The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of" or Mike Davis's "Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster". I also, alas, haven't read "The Iron Heel". I did read "The Scarlet Plague" which was somewhat interesting.

That novel was rather funny for its anachronistic details. Its set in 2013 but the society is still some sort of Victorian/Edwardian class system and there's one bit where a character says a plane that went three hundred miles was too fast for most people. :D
 
Wasn´t IOTL Chinese population around 800-1000 millions in 1978? Forgot that one. :eek:

Well that was ASB and unpleasant to read. Bioweapons aren't that effective.

Correct (as far as advanced genetical engineering isn´t involved), thought, there are many that disagree.

Good old Jack London and his early 1900's racism.

At least he saw the Chinese as different, instead of retarded.
 
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