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___MASK97___ Derr Biggers ( ___MASK64___ 26 , 1884  April 5 , 1933 ) was an American novelist and playwright . Mr . Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent and detective created by the American author John P . Marquand . He appeared in ___MASK74___ novels by Marquand published between 1935 and 1957 . Marquand initially created the character for the Saturday Evening Post , which was seeking stories with an Asian ___MASK71___ after the death of Charlie Chan ' s creator Earl Derr Biggers . In various other media , Mr . Moto has been portrayed as an international law enforcement agent . These include eight motion pictures starring Peter Lorre between 1937 and 1939 , 23 radio shows starring James Monks broadcast in 1951 , a 1965 film starring Henry Silva , and a 2003 comic book produced by Moonstone Books . The graphic novel Welcome Back , Mr . Moto by Rafael Nieves and Tim Hamilton published by Moonstone Books in 2008 ( originally published in 2003 as a 3 - issue comic book miniseries ) portrays Mr . Moto as an American of Japanese descent helping Japanese - American citizens after World War II . The Late George Apley is a ___MASK35___ novel by John Phillips Marquand . It is a satire of Boston ' s upper class . The title character is a Harvard - educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston . Apana Chang ( ___MASK93___ 26 , 1871  ___MASK93___ 8 , 1933 ) was a Chinese - Hawaiian member of the Honolulu Police Department , first as an officer , then as a detective . He was acknowledged by Earl Derr Biggers as the inspiration for his fictional Asian detective character , Charlie Chan . John Phillips Marquand ( ___MASK8___ 10 , 1893  July 16 , 1960 ) was an American writer . Originally best known for his Mr . Moto spy stories , he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels , winning a Pulitzer ___MASK14___ for " The Late George Apley " in 1938 . One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America ' s upper class and among those who aspired to join it . Marquand treated those whose lives were bound by these unwritten codes with a characteristic mix of respect and satire . Dr . Fu Manchu is a ___MASK45___ introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the twentieth century . The character was also featured extensively in cinema , television , radio , comic strips , and comic books for over 90 years , and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache . Hawaii is the 50th and most recent ___MASK68___ to have joined the United States of America , having received statehood on ___MASK64___ 21 , 1959 . Hawaii is the only U . S . ___MASK68___ located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands . It is the northernmost ___MASK86___ in Polynesia , occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean . Hawaii is the only U . S . ___MASK68___ not located in the Americas . Charlie Chan is a ___MASK45___ created by Earl Derr Biggers . Biggers loosely based Chan on Honolulu , Hawaii detective Chang Apana , and conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes and villains like Fu Manchu . Chan is a detective for the Honolulu police , though many stories feature Chan traveling the world as he investigates mysteries and solves crimes . A playwright , also known as a dramatist , is a ___MASK69___ who writes plays . Honolulu is the ___MASK77___ and largest city of the U . S . state of Hawaii . It is an unincorporated part of and the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu . The city is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major portal into the United States . The city is also a major hub for international business , ___MASK53___ defense , as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east - west and Pacific culture , cuisine , and traditions . ___MASK92___ is a ___MASK6___ of literature , and sometimes graphic and performing arts , in which vices , follies , abuses , and shortcomings are held up to ridicule , ideally with the intent of shaming individuals , corporations , ___MASK46___ , or ___MASK73___ itself into improvement . Although satire is usually meant to be humorous , its greater purpose is often constructive social ___MASK87___ , using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in ___MASK73___ . The Yellow Peril ( also Yellow Terror and Yellow Spectre ) is a racist ___MASK94___ - ___MASK63___ that is ___MASK29___ to the xenophobic theory of colonialism : That the peoples of East Asia are a danger to the Western world . As a psycho - cultural perception of menace from the East , fear of the Yellow Peril was more racial than national , a fear derived , not from concern with a specific source of danger , from any one country or ___MASK5___ , but from a vaguely ominous , existential fear of the vast , faceless , nameless horde of yellow ___MASK5___ opposite the Western world . As a form of xenophobia , the Yellow Terror is the white race ' s fear of the rising tide of colored ___MASK5___ from the Orient .