According to the second Farr extract (p50-59), how did Herge research China for The Blue Lotus?
According to the reading materials, Herge’s research about China for The Blue Lotus, the most significantly start is the meeting with a Chinese art student in Brussels in 1934. This happy encounter with Cheng Chongqing is under the introduction of a priest, Father Gosset who was chaplain to the Chinese student at the University of Louvain. He wrote to Herge and advise him should look closely at Chinese and doing research properly.
As the in-depth exchanges and understanding with Chen Chongqing, Herge completely changed the prejudice and misunderstanding, meanwhile, he start to love and like Chinese culture. There are evidences, e.g “the meeting with Chang and the sweeping away of prejudices was so important …he transposed it into the narrative…”. He looked pictures of the real china to do his research, this is mentioned at the beginning of his “documentalist” period.
He also did research the real historical events at that time. Quite fair and surprising opinions appeared. “a radical view later justified by historical events. For such a view to appear in the children’s supplement of a Catholic newspaper in the 1930s is, to say the least, surprising…”
It's great to know that Herge did not the stubborn type of people or else the Tintin comic series would not became that famous. Moreover, you can extract some of Herge admitted himself which was mentioned by Farr.
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thaks Simon, that's quite important, i will add it.
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ReplyDeleteA great first attempt here - well done!
You have answered the question well - just need to make sure that you: reference secondary sources correctly, and add a reference list at the end of your post; make reference to primary texts 9in this case evidence in the text of Herge's research) and also add your own view or opinion on the question at hand, where relevant.
Esther :)
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