In the Land of Pagodas: A Classic Account of Travel in Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou 2017
Publisher:
NIAS Press
Publication:
2/2017
Languages:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9788776942021
Pages:
500
Sizes:
229 x 152mm
Weight:
0.8000
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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.