Yellow Peril Awareness [Day 1]

Coming Soon: the first-ever ‘Yellow Peril Awareness Day’ on 6th May 2024

Did you know there were 6 Chinese survivors on the Titanic? That the first Japanese visitors to London came in the 1500s and that in 1945, the Home Office secretly and illegally deported thousands of Chinese seamen who had helped Britain during WW2? Their families, left in Liverpool, weren’t notified, and spent decades assuming their husbands and fathers had died or abandoned them, and only found out the truth decades later .

Undercurrents of Sinophobia and Yellow Peril, the fear, and, by extension, hatred of people who appear ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) continues to rear its ugly head through history and in more recent years. To ensure the next generation of ESEA people don’t have to battle anti-ESEA scapegoating, we’re launching ‘Yellow Peril Awareness Day’, an annual deep-dive into chapters of interwoven British-ESEA history.

Kickstarting on the 6th May, we’ll annually commemorate…