MAMMOTH
HERGE
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THE BLUE LOTUS
MAMMOTH
HISTORICAL NOTE Herge first published Le Lotus Bleu in the magazine Le Petit Vingtieme in Brussels in 1934-5: the story itself is set in 1931. At that time Japanese troops were occupying parts of the Chinese
International Settlement, a trading base in China for Western nations, administered by the
by Japan into China and ultimately to Japan’s resignation from the League of Nations in 1933.
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