The Sino-French War led to immediate revival of interest in Gobineau's anti-Asian writings in France. Several French newspapers reprinted the French original of Gobineau's 1881 article in the Bayreuther Blätter, together with a translation of Wagner's introduction warning about the imminent Chinese threat to European civilization.[170] Likewise, the Franco-Chinese war led to the Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines becoming popular in France.[171] The book had been published in four volumes (each about 1,000 pages long) in 1853–55, and remained out of print for decades.