Not all invasion threats were purported to come from the Germans, the French or from Anarchists: in M.P. Shiels Yellow Danger it is an army of Chinese who invade Europe.
Shiel described in lurid colors the possibilities of the overwhelming of the white world by the yellow man, a possibility for the imagining of, which he claimed no originality. This made Shiels popular reputation and was almost certainly the most commercially successful of the twenty books published during his first creative period, 1889-1913.