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The strange English dystopian Sci Fi Novel about Ireland

The Blindboy Podcast

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Britain flooded china with opium. Opium is now illegal in China. Britain kind of went to war with china to force them to trade opium. So that's a really bad thing, a really bad and evil thing that briton did to china. But then what happens in british culture around the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century? You start to see in books and on stage shows and in plays, all of a sudden, now britain is portraying chinese people as evil opium attics. And this created what is known in po's colonial theory as the yellow peril,. This fear of east asian people as being bringers of

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