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The impact of these individuals as well as the British, French, Russians, Japanese, Germans and Americans in the following three hundred or so years created a tension that resulted negatively in the West and elsewhere in the racist Yellow Peril scare; and positively in developments such as an appreciation of China as a cultured civilisation with trade in Chinoiserie and food stuffs. In fact, between the late eighteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century there was a debate between detractors and supporters of China as either barbarian or civilised, with relationships between British and Chinese in the colony of Hong Kong perhaps surprisingly surviving the complex change of events in China that led to the rise of communism in rural and urban China from the 1920s onwards. The Yellow Peril scare, essentially a fear of Chinese expansionism and morals, is the main subject matter of this book. Muirhead concludes that with the pressures brought upon the world by Chinas massive economic growth and pollution comes the risk of a revival of the Yellow Peril scare. Muirhead hopes his book will dispel a tendency amongst some commentators to portray everything in black and white and an unnecessary overwhelming guilt for colonialism. 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Apart from its own, fascinating, local history, many strands of the rich tapestry of England's story are woven into its past, including involvement in the PeasantsAE Revolt, the famous Armada speech of Queen Elizabeth I and other headline events. Its appeal to early man is becoming ever more evident from archaeological excavation and chance discoveries; while the Saxon site at Mucking is world famous and has provided Europe-wide scholars with new information about the Saxon immigration period by the cart-load - still being studied years after the main dig. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTilbury was an ancient river port, but the construction of a gigantic chain of docks in the 19th century perhaps opened up a new chapter, putting Thurrock on the world map and encouraging the rapid growth of factories and oil installations, revealing the area to the outside world. Strangely, up to the middle of the 20th century, foreigners arriving at Tilbury or involved with Thameside industries were often more aware of Grays Thurrock than English people from elsewhere. This began to change with the building of the huge post-war London overspill estate of Belhus, then the completion of the Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel in 1960 and, later, the Queen Elizabeth I Bridge, linking Thurrock with the south and the Continent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking Thurrock even better known to the outside world were scenes in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral shot at St Clement's Church, West Thurrock, some with the great new bridge in the background. 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