He has been portrayed by H. Agar Lyons, Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. In the early stories, he is most definitely not Chinese, and is meant to combine traditional Tartar savagery with the "cosmopolitan heartlessness of the new global criminal class." However, Hollywood recast him as strictly Chinese, prompting the Chinese government to successfully lobby against some early film projects featuring him. Intended to offer the Holmes-esque hero Nyland Smith, FTP, name this villain described as the "yellow peril made incarnate in one man."
He has been portrayed by H. Agar Lyons, Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. In the early stories, he is most definitely not Chinese, and is meant to combine traditional Tartar savagery with the "cosmopolitan heartlessness of the new global criminal class." However, Hollywood recast him as strictly Chinese, prompting the Chinese government to successfully lobby against some early film projects featuring him. Intended to offer the Holmes-esque hero Nyland Smith, FTP, name this villain described as the "yellow peril made incarnate in one man."
He has been portrayed by H. Agar Lyons, Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee.