ISBN:
9788776942021
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9788776942014
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxiv, 494 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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23 cm
Series Statement:
Exploring Asia 1
Keywords:
Travel
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China
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Hong Kong (China)
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Macau (China)
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Travel writing
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Bibliografie
Abstract:
China, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalist's eye. Alfred Raquez drifts from Indochina to Hong Kong, Macao and Canton before falling in with a group of shady entrepreneurs in Shanghai with interests far up the Yuan River. In short order, Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and camera in hand. The result is a richly recorded adventure told from the perspective of a wandering French boulevardier. In the Land of Pagodas takes readers on a picaresque journey that is as much Moulin Rouge as it is Heart of Darkness, and in its narration reveals much about the derring-do and startling hypocrisy of the colonial enterprise
Note:
Translation of "Au Pays des Pagodes: Notes de Voyage, Hongkong, Macao, Shanghai, Le Houpé, Le Hounan, Le Kouei-Tchéou"
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Übersetzung aus dem Französischen
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