El Loto Azul/ the Blue Lotus (Tintin) (Spanish Edition)
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Book Description
The Blue Lotus is the sequel to
Cigars of the Pharaoh. While Tintin is in India taking a well-earned rest, he is drawn into a dangerous mystery revolving around a madness-inducing poison. The young reporter travels to the source of the poison, Shanghai. Within the real historical context of the tensions between China and Japan during the 1930s, Tintin sets to work, unraveling a n...
More The Blue Lotus is the sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh. While Tintin is in India taking a well-earned rest, he is drawn into a dangerous mystery revolving around a madness-inducing poison. The young reporter travels to the source of the poison, Shanghai. Within the real historical context of the tensions between China and Japan during the 1930s, Tintin sets to work, unraveling a nefarious web of opium traffickers. He also meets a young Chinese boy, Chang Chong-chen, who becomes a key ally and lifelong friend.
In the spring of 1934, when Hergé announced that he was sending Tintin to China, he was contacted by Father Gosset, a priest in charge of the welfare of Chinese students at Leuven University in Belgium. Father Gosset was worried that Hergé would offend Chinese people if he portrayed them in stereotypical and clichéd ways. The priest put Hergé in contact with Chang Chong-chen, a Chinese student. Chang taught the author about Eastern philosophy. With his help, Hergé carried out extensive research on China to write The Blue Lotus.
Historical Note
Hergé first published Le Lotus Bleu in the magazine Le Petite Vingtieme in Brussels in 1934-35: The story itself is set in 1931. At that time Japanese Troops were occupying parts of the Chinese mainland, and Shanghai, the great seaport at the mouth of the Yangtze Kiang, possessed an International Settlement, a trading base in China for Western nations, administered by the British and Americans. Hergé based his narrative freely upon the events of the time, including the blowing up of the South Manchurian railway, which led to further incursions by Japan into China and ultimately to Japan's resignation from the League of Nations.
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