Oriental riff

[3][4][5] Later related tunes included "Mama's China Twins (Oriental Lullaby)" from 1900.

In the 1930s, a couple of cartoons used a version of the tune specifically to accompany animated stereotypes of East Asians.

Examples of its use include Poetic Tone Pictures (Poeticke nalady) (1889) by Antonin Dvořák,[6] "Limehouse Blues" by Carl Ambrose and his Orchestra (1935), "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas (1974), "Japanese Boy" by Aneka (1981),[1][4] The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" (1980),[4] "Chinese Laundry Blues" by George Formby (1932), Rush's "A Passage to Bangkok" (1976),[4] and as part of the whistling refrain in "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John (2006).

!, Min Min's theme in ARMS, the Team China stage in Super Dodge Ball, the song "Shao Pai Long" in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the fighting theme of the Kung-Fu chapter in Live A Live, the Wabi Sabi Wall theme in Ape Escape, and the track "Enter The Tiger" in Yakuza: Like a Dragon.

Unlike the Western use of it seen in cases such as "Turning Japanese", works produced in Japan often use it to give an impression of China.