In the land of pagodas a classic account of travel in Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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NIAS Press
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Exploring Asia
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Translation of "Au Pays des Pagodes: Notes de Voyage, Hongkong, Macao, Shanghai, Le Houpé, Le Hounan, Le Kouei-Tchéou" Übersetzung aus dem Französischen |
| Beschreibung: | xxxiv, 494 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9788776942021 978-87-7694-202-1 9788776942014 978-87-7694-201-4 |