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Fu Manchu now wears a burnoose and turban

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860411
Author:Sydney J. Harris

When I was a boy, growing up, I devoured the Fu Manchu mysteries by Sax Rohmer (who was actually an Englishman named Arthur Ward), which depicted the evil opium dens of Limehouse in London, headed by the sinister Chinese of that name.

Fu Manchu was a deep-dyed villain of consummate cunning and cruelty, and to my boyish mind every Chinese launderer or waiter I ran across was possibly a member of some vicious tong under Fu Manchu's control.

Of course, I knew absolutely nothing about the Chinese at the time. They were simply the stock conventional villains of pulp literature, and it was ...

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