In 1922, China breaks away from Japan and fights a brief war that culminates in the Chinese annexation of the Japanese possessions of Korea, Formosa, and Manchuria.
Over the next half century, China's population steadily grows, and eventually migration overwhelms every other European colony in Asia.
London wrote the story in 1907 and it was published in McClure's in 1910[2][3]: 18 "The Unparalleled Invasion" was included in The Strength of the Strong, a collection of stories by London published by Macmillan in 1914,[4] which also included "The Dream of Debs", a critique of capitalist society in the US, and "The Strength of the Strong", which used a primitive background as metaphor of social injustice among men.
[3]: 19 However, other academics have also claimed that this story is a "strident warning against race hatred and its paranoia", due to its focus on the danger posed to China by the West.
Some academics argue that the story represents a warning of what happens when racial hatred is allowed to develop or an ironic criticism of imperialism.