Talk:Fu Manchu

message: fixed a couple spelling errors.  --xiaou
It should be noted that Ra's Al Ghul has similarities with Fu Manchu.
Lazarus Pit=Elixir Vitae
Si-Fan=League of Assassins
Talia=Fah Lo Suee
Anything else come to mind?
:The Shadow's Shiwan Khan, several Oriental villians in Doc Savage, Marvel Comic's The Mandarin... It was a common stereotype in the pulps. CFLeon 01:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There were many Oriental villians in early pulps, many with 'Fu Manchu'-like names- 'Wu Fang', etc.  Fu has also appeared unnamed in some Sherlock Holmes pastiches, is the basis of Doc Brass's associate, Hark, etc.  129.188.33.221 19:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Why was the Marvel Comics reference removed? It is as valid, if not more, as the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reference; its use was authorizhed by the copyright owners and he was a major character in the Master of Kung Fu series. At the least, a link to Shang-Chi should be allowed. Wilfredo Martinez 14:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I was expecting to see a reference to Ming the Merciless from the Flash Gordon franchise mentioned as having been inspired by the Fu Manchu character. McGehee 01:35, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixes

message: In the last sentence of the "Characters" section, should it be said that China was "liberated by Communism"?--68.46.187.78 (talk) 23:02, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording 

message: I'm very much sure that Fu refers to this: 福, but does anyone know what Manchu is supposed to be in Chinese characters? Is it mentioned in the movies or anywhere? --Andylkl [ talk! | c ] 12:29, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article strongly implies that the second name is Manchu, a Manchurian, a countryman or member of the Qing dynasty, and I believe this correct. What characters that may be I do not know, but a English-Chinese dictionary should tell you. JCScaliger 04:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would Fu Manchu would have a Chinese name?  He was created as a Yellow Peril villain at a time when Europeans/European-Americans didn't really care about Chinese.  Sax Rohmer most likely mashed together some Chinese-looking words to produce the name. --ColourBurst 04:04, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

text: If "Fu Manchu" was a title of honor, which meant "the Warlike Manchu." is in fact true or the original intention, the name should be "Wu Manchu", and 武满洲. This is pure OR but it would be in keeping with a meglomaniac character as 武 is most commonly used as a honorific for founding emperorsKTo288 (talk) 14:04, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Since no support for the Chinese name has been given it has been removed, to comply with Wikipedia:No original research. Zahzuhzaz (talk) 13:40, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Fu Manchu's Chinese name?

message: So what have the Chinese themselves thought about Fu Manchu over the years.  Anything?  I could see them dismissing him as a foreign stereotype, or adopting him as a hero.
Cranston Lamont 17:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As a matter of fact, Fu Manchu is barely known in China.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.247.159.145 (talk) 17:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reputation in China 

message: does anyone know if any movie studio has plans to make another fu manchu movie for the 21st century? anyone?
---Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia said in an interview during the late nineties that he was preparing for a new Fu Manchu film which was to be shot on location in Asia. Does anybody know anything more?--80.133.199.101 15:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  movie for the 21st century 

message: Some people say the stereotype is racist. I'm Chinese but I haven't read those books yet. Is that true the author wrote them because of his racism? WooyiTalk, Editor review 04:56, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racist? 

message: I've split off a stub article for The Shadow of Fu Manchu radio program and find to my surprise that my research cannot demonstrate the accuracy of a statement in this article, that "Bruno Lang" played Fu Manchu on radio in 1939-40.  My source gives Hanley Stafford.  IMDB has no entry for a Bruno Lang and, although this suggestion returns numerous times in a Google search, it seems as though all the citations are based on Wikipedia.  Can anyone offer any citations for information about Bruno Lang?  My source also gives Bruno WICK for the actor in Flash Gordon. Accounting4Taste:talk 04:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed material that my reference cannot back up -- the 1944 radio programme is not mentioned anywhere either, including the OTRR Library, and I very much doubt it exists -- and provided a citation.  If someone can demonstrate that these assertions are true, with a reliable source or two to back them up, by all means return them.  Accounting4Taste:talk 16:01, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Bruno Lang

message: * The Times, 4 April 2010
--Mais oui! (talk) 11:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wayback Machine --Jesdisciple (talk) 14:16, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Edinburgh University is criminally ignoring its link to Dr Fu Manchu' 

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message: This is all I know about this subject, but (back in the 1960s?) (in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction?) I read an essay that said that Dr. Fu Manchu had hinted about an origin in ancient Egypt, a hint that Robert E. Howard took and went one better in Skull-Face, in which the Devil Doctor is shown to be a surviving Atlantean. J S Ayer (talk) 13:03, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egypt 

message: " a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst (who had also serialised the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine) to cease making further films based on the property."
This statement is inaccurate- The Mask of Fu Manchu was serialised in Collier's magazine, not Cosmopolitan.
See here:  . 176.61.97.121 (talk) 17:19, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collier's Magazine "Mask of Fu Manchu" 

message: Authorized by whom? Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:08, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The Society of Authors and The Authors Guild jointly administer The Sax Rohmer Literary Estate. This is noted in the continuation novels starting with Van Ash. 70.191.119.68 (talk) 23:58, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Authorized" 

message: list seems out of place and feels like OR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.186.86.53 (talk) 11:45, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  list of actors ages 

message: Fu Manchu appears as "The Devil Doctor" , never mentioned as "Fu Manchu" to avoid copywriter issues , in the first series of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons. 75.104.174.49 (talk) 18:32, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appearance In "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" 

message: This article is poorly developed and sourced, and needs to be rewritten entirely. The article itself gives more information on the characters of the series rather than Fu Manchu himself. Since this is an article on Fu Manchu's character this is unnecessary and needs to be removed from the article. All information should be about the appearances, development of the character which should be given proper citations for its information. Appearances section should be relatively brief on each of the character's appearances and should be given proper citations for the information that is shown. The development section should be split into the following sub-sections: Concept and creation; and one on actors portraying the character. This article has a lot of work that is needed for it to meet Wikipiedia's guidelines and standards. If enough attention is given to it this article, it can meet GA and possibly FA status.--Paleface Jack (talk) 17:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The lede & early paragraphs give no dates for the first three appearances of Fu Manchu. This is important both to give context and because there is a large gap before the next book (whose date is given), 1917-1931 iirc.  --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 16:07, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates needed 

message: It should be mentioned that all five of the Christopher Lee Dr. Fu Manchu films are available on home video, Face and Vengeance on DVD-R by Warner Archive, Brides on both DVD by Warner Home Video (this release was exclusively from Best Buy) and DVD-R from Warner Archive (both times as a double feature with the 1966 horror film Chamber of Horrors) and Blood and Castle on both DVD (two separate releases) and Blu-ray (a two films-in-one disc release) by Blue Underground. Blood and Castle were also both released in their original unedited versions from Europe for the first time in the U.S.
These facts should be mentioned in each film's respective Wikipedia article as well; they've been missing for way too long.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 01:21, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Christopher Lee Dr. Fu Manchu films' availability on home video

message: I think that the article's title should be changed from Fu Manchu to Dr. Fu Manchu. After all, credit where credit is due.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 01:26, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Changing the article's title

message: The character he plays (in Shang-chi) is only partly inspired by Fu Manchu and is really a separate entity ultimately… shouldn’t his name be removed from this article? BlackAdvisor (talk) 00:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You are absolutely right, he should not be on there. It looks like another editor has already removed the information. InfiniteNexus (talk) 04:00, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Wenwu is more reminiscent of the Marvel version, now known as Zheng Zu, not the character created by Rohmer.Hyju (talk) 21:14, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: OK good  BlackAdvisor (talk) 22:05, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tony Leung?