Identify the two men in the first visual and connect them to the second visual. Think literature.
Update: The question might have been too hard as originally stated. I have added a hint and will let it stay for another day.
Monday, October 20, 2008
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Identify the two men in the first visual and connect them to the second visual. Think literature.
Update: The question might have been too hard as originally stated. I have added a hint and will let it stay for another day.
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Herge and Zhang
Zhang was inspiration for Chang in Tintin - Blue Lotus
Right is Sino Jap war and Jap invasion of China => Lost contact with Zhang => Reflection in Chang lost in Tintin in Tibet
Pic is Blue Lotus strip
1. Tintin's creator Herge, Herge's wife and Chang Chong-jen. Chang was Herge's artist friend who inspired the Chinese boy character in The Blue Lotus.
2. The Mukden Incident: sabotage of Janapese-owned railway lines in China which led to the Sino-Japanese War and later the Civil War. This is when Chang had to return to China and lost contact with Herge for many decades. He was actually made to work as a street sweeper (maybe Ayn Rand uses his story for inspiration in her book Anthem!) thanks to the f*$&#&^ Cultural Revolution. Ah, the evils of extreme politics! :(
3. A scene from the Blue Lotus
PS: There is a happy ending to this story. Chang eventually returned to France and spent Herge's last 2 years with him. :)
Georges Prosper Remi (Hergé) and Zhang Chongren.
Zhang's discussions with Hergé about China in that period, helped Hergé to write/draw "The Blue Lotus".
The Mukden Incident was depicted in the Blue Lotus.
Herge and Zhang Chongren.
Zhang was the inspiration for the Chang-Chong-Chen character in Tintin.
The Blue Lotus also depicts the Mukden incident of the China-Japan war (second picture).
Herge and Zhang who collaborated on the Tinin comic - Blue Lotus which alludes to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria aka Mukden incident.
First visual - Georges Remi and Zhang Chongren. Second visual - The Mukden Incident which appears in The Blue Lotus.
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