The Unparalleled Invasion

The Unparalleled Invasion is a science fiction story by Jack London in 1910.

Plot

"The Unparalleled Invasion" begins in 1910s China. Under the influence of Japan, China modernizes and has its own Meiji Reforms. In 1922, China breaks away from Japan and fights a brief war that culminates in the Chinese annexation of the Japanese possessions of Korea, Formosa, and Manchuria. Over the next half century, China's population steadily grows, and eventually migration overwhelms European colonies in Asia. The United States of America and the other Western powers launch a biological warfare campaign against China, resulting in the decimation of China's population. China is then colonized by the Western powers.

Controversy

"The Unparalleled Invasion" has been controversial for its depiction of genocide and is often cited as evidence of London's racism. The genocide, described in considerable detail, is throughout the book described as justified and "the only possible solution to the Chinese problem," and nowhere is there mentioned any objection to it. The then-commonly accepted phrases "yellow Race," "yellow crowds in streets," "yellow faces," and similar racial epithets are frequently used throughout the story. It ends with the "sanitation of China" and its re-settlement by Western settlers.

See also

• White nationalist novels
• The Camp of the Saints
• The Turner Diaries

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