![]() Much of the essence of this story is Orientalist, and the presentation of both Chinese and Japanese characters is crude caricature. This, the fifth entry in the Tintin series, is the first one with anti-racist content. In the Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin has almost succeeded in smashing an international gang of drug traffickers, managing to capture all of them except the leader who mysteriously crashes over a ravine.His further investigations lead him to China, then under threat from Japanese agression.Tintin comes up against a madman infected with a dart that sends the recipient insane, enraged British colonists out fo Written in 1936, The Blue Lotus is the sequel to the colourful Cigars of the Pharaoh. Written in 1936, The Blue Lotus is the sequel to the colourful Cigars of the Pharaoh.
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