In the land of pagodas
Subtitle: a classic account of travel in Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou
By: Alfred Raquez ; edited and translated by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux
Contributors: Gibson, William L., editor, translator; Bruthiaux, Paul, editor, translator
Series: Exploring Asia -- #1; Exploring Asia (Copenhagen, Denmark) -- #1.
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9788776942014; 9788776942021
Subjects: Description and travel
Work titles: Au pays des pagodes
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of "Au Pays des Pagodes: Notes de Voyage, Hongkong, Macao, Shanghai, Le Houpé, Le Hounan, Le Kouei-Tchéou"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.