字幕表 動画を再生する
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When Tintin is on his new adventure in Shanghai,
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He secretely follows Mitsuhirato, a Japanese spy and owner of the Blue Lotus
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to a place outside of the city.
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There he witnesses an explosion.
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Mitsuhirato and two other gangsters blew up the train track to Shanghai
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and seconds later they put the blame on Chinese bandits.
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The event that was depicted in "The Blue Lotus" is in fact based on a true story.
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An event known as The Manchurian Incident
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The Blue Lotus
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This comic was originally published in 1934 to 1935
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and it contained a lot of information about China, that the western world was simply not aware of.
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So what's different in this comic compared to Tintin's former adventures
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is that Hergé finally didn’t use stereotypes and in fact paid more attention on telling the story as accurate as possible.
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And thanks to the help of his Chinese friend Chang, or Zhang Chong Ren,
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who was an arts student in Belgium,
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he learned about Chinese culture and also about the Manchurian Incident,
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which is also known as the „Mukden Incident“ or in Chinese "jiu yi ba shibian", which means 9/18 Incident.
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On September 18 in 1931, the Japanese detonated a small amount of dynamite
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close to a railway line to Shenyang that was owned by Japan.
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Compared to "The Adventures of Tintin",
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the railway line was barely damaged and a train passed over it just a few minutes later.
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The Japanese blamed Chinese troups as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
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The region was important for Japan, because it was rich in natural resources and they could gain politcal power.
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This false flag event was soon exposed and led to Japans resignation from the League of Nations in March 1933.
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In 1939, Soong Mei-Ling, the wife of political leader Chiang Kai-Shek invited Herge to visit them.
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Hergé wasn’t able to do so, because of the upcoming World War II. He finally visited her in Taiwan in 1973.