Sax Rohmer's legendary criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu also employed Burmese dacoits as his henchmen.

Critics have referred to Enter the Dragon as " a low-rent James Bond thriller ", a " remake of Doctor No " with elements of Fu Manchu.

Film poster by Mitchell Hooks for 1965 film The Face of Fu Manchu

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th 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.

In the 1933 novel, The Bride of Fu Manchu, Fu Manchu claims to hold doctorates from four Western universities.

In the 1959 novel, Emperor Fu Manchu, he reveals he attended Heidelberg, the Sorbonne, and Edinburgh.

In the early books, Dr. Petrie, believed that Fu Manchu was around 70 years old in 1911 at the time of their first encounter.

This would have placed Fu Manchu in the West studying for his first doctorate in the 1870s.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

" Van Ash speculates that Fu Manchu had been a member of the Imperial family who backed the losing side in the Boxer Rebellion.

In the earliest books, Fu Manchu is an agent of the secret society, the Si-Fan and acts as the mastermind behind a wave of assassinations targeting Western imperialists.

Dr. Fu Manchu has extended his already considerable lifespan by use of the elixir vitae, a formula he spent decades trying to perfect.

Opposing Fu Manchu in the early stories are Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie.

They are in the Holmes and Watson tradition, with Dr. Petrie narrating the stories while Nayland Smith carries the fight, combating Fu Manchu more by dogged determination than intellectual brilliance ( except in extremis ).

Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu share a grudging respect for one another, as each believes a man must keep his word even to an enemy.

Heggie ( 52-53 ) in The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1929 ) and The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1930 )

* Lewis Stone ( 53 ) in The Mask of Fu Manchu ( 1932 )

Laurette Luez played Karamaneh in 1956's The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, but the character owed more to Fah lo Suee than Rohmer's depiction of Karamaneh.

Following the 1940 release of Republic Pictures ' serial adaptation of Drums of Fu Manchu, the U. S. State Department requested the studio make no further films with the character as China was an ally against Japan.

The character of Fu Manchu became a stereotype often associated with the Yellow Peril.

Shang-Chi () is a Marvel Comics character, often called the " Master of Kung Fu ".

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

Though an original character himself, many of Shang-Chi's supporting characters ( most notably Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith ) were Rohmer creations.

No characters from the Kung Fu television series carried over into the comic series, though the character Lu Sung, in an early issue, bears a strong resemblance to Kwai Chang Caine with the addition of a moustache.

* Fah Lo Suee is the daughter of Fu Manchu and is the final character from the novels to appear in the comic.

Fleming's inspiration for the Dr. No character was Sax Rohmer's villain Dr Fu Manchu, the books about who Fleming had read and enjoyed in earlier years.

* The character Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu, is modeled after the character Cain.

After working on Captain Marvel, Starlin and writer Steve Englehart co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, though they only worked on the early issues of the series.

* The fictional character Kwai Chang Caine used elements of Snake Kung Fu in the television series Kung Fu

* Bou Keng Wan (" Cloud "), a Kung Fu character from the Hong Kong comic, Fung Wan

A prominent example occurs within the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, wherein a character who is clearly intended in appearance and description by other characters to be Dr. Fu Manchu appears as a significant villain ; however, as this character was not in the public domain at the time of writing and the rights still held by the estate of his creator Sax Rohmer, he is not directly named as such in the work and is only referred to as ' the Devil Doctor '.

In his complex schemes for world-domination, he is also reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's character, Fu Manchu.

Ming is portrayed as a military dictator in this serial, rather than as a Fu Manchu or Devil-like character as in the two previous Flash Gordon serials.

* Oolong, a main character from Yie-Ar Kung Fu.

Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine-style villains such as Dr. Fu Manchu and Fantômas, the latter of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques ' goal was both commercial success and to make political comments, in much the same way that the silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) had done just a few years previously.

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Fu Manchu's daughter, Fah lo Suee, is a devious mastermind in her own right, frequently plotting to usurp her father's position in the Si-Fan and aiding his enemies within and outside of the organization.

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Zung Fu is expanding its presence across the growing market of Southern China where it is actively developing a network of Mercedes-Benz dealerships.

In some of his modern appearances, mention is made of his villainous father either in cryptic terms or using a variety of new names, due to Marvel no longer having the rights to Fu Manchu.

Shang-Chi was born in the Hunan province of the People's Republic of China, and is the son of Fu Manchu, the Chinese mastermind who has repeatedly attempted world conquest.

* Fu Manchu is portrayed in a manner mostly consistent with the Sax Rohmer novels.

* Sir Denis Nayland Smith is Fu Manchu's nemesis from the novels.

She is a villainess in her own right, though she is not interested in the misguided idealism of Fu Manchu.

* Midnight is an African child named M ' Nai adopted by Fu Manchu, and raised alongside his son Shang-Chi.

The power P = Fu = Tω, where ω is the angular velocity of the wheel.

A common claim is that the first recorded use of a rocket in battle was by the Chinese in 1232 against the Mongol hordes at Kai Feng Fu.

This is based on an old Mandarin civil service examination question that reads " Is the defense of Kai Feng Fu against the Mongols ( 1232 ) the first recorded use of cannon ?".

Founded in the fifth century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and it is the best known Mahayana Buddhist monastery to the Western world.

The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.

* The last ruler of Former Qin, Fu Chong is killed in battle against an army of Western Qin, bringing Former Qin to an end.

It is a taboo to disfigure a depiction of a dragon ; for example, an advertisement campaign commissioned by Nike, which featured the American basketball player LeBron James slaying a dragon ( as well as beating up an old Kung Fu master ), was immediately banned by the Chinese government after public outcry over " disrespect ".