Legacy and honors

'All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.'

London shared common concerns among European Americans in California about Asian immigration, described as "the yellow peril"; 

he used the latter term as the title of a 1904 essay.This theme was also the subject of a story he wrote in 1910 called "The Unparalleled Invasion".

Presented as an historical essay set in the future, the story narrates events between 1976 and 1987, in which China, with an ever-increasing population, is taking over and colonizing its neighbors with the intention of taking over the entire Earth. The western nations respond with biological warfare and bombard China with dozens of the most infectious diseases.