ARTH 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ronald Knox, Sax Rohmer, Nils Asther
16 Aug 2016
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How the west sees the east history of yellow-face in hollywood part 2. The detection club: a group of british mystery authors including g. k chesterton, agatha. Initiation ceremony includes: is it your rm desire to become a member of the detection. Do you promise to observe a seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies chinamen, lunatics . Chinamen was listed as unfair to readers elements that would make detective stories cheap. **the use of chinamen in their stories would result in a cheap/ poorly written story** The chinese is over-equipped in the matter of brains, and under-equipped in the matter of morals. Believed that if you come across the mention of the slit-like eyes of chin loo recommends readers to put the book down immediately, as it is bad. Only exception is lord ernest hamilton"s four tragedies of memworth. Chinese characters in detective fiction = villains and criminals.
