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There is such a genre as the hybridization of Yellow Peril literature and Invasion literature. The article begins by providing a historical ;background of three samples of this hybrid in 1908. Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5, the Boxer Uprising of 1900, and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, the Yellow Peril was most keenly felt by Asia-Pacific white nations such as the United States and Australia, in the form of Chinese immigrant labor, which was demonized into an unassimilated alien culture and a conspiratorial fifth column. When Japan rose to become one of the Powers, the bogey of a "new Chingis Khan" started to 100m large . Japan's naval victories came to fire the imagination of a new vintage of Invasion literature. A Shanghai writer replaces Japan with an imaginary China attaining global domination by the year 1999, whereas a German writer imagines an invasion of western United States by Japan, with Chinese immigrants acting as its fifth column. A similar attack by a Pan-Asian Alliance, in the form of the future air war, also informs the English story by H.G. Wells, this time intercepting a German air raid on the United States East Coast, vanquishing both, ushering in a gloomy future for mankind. All these stories are comments on current affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]