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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