Flowers such as white and blue lotus were grown in the ponds for decoration and for ceremonies, and papyrus was known to grow at Deir el-Bahri.
32.
Herg?reintroduced Rastapopoulos in the following adventure, " The Blue Lotus ", which was set in China and dealt with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
33.
In " The Blue Lotus, " published in 1934 and set in Shanghai in 1931, Tintin rescues Chang from the Yangtze River and they become friends.
34.
Now, in " The Blue Lotus " ( 1934 ), he criticised the white and Sikh officers ), was also shown in a bad light.
35.
This arc was the first that Herg?had utilised since " Cigars of the Pharaoh " and " The Blue Lotus " ( 1934 36 ).
36.
As a result, " The Blue Lotus " has been widely hailed as " Herg?s first masterpiece " and a benchmark in the series'development.
37.
Harry Thompson noted that some people believed that Herg?s depiction of the Japanese as buck-toothed and inherently violent in " The Blue Lotus " was racist.
38.
As a token of appreciation Herg?added a fictional " Chang Chong-Chen " to " The Blue Lotus ", a young Chinese boy who meets and befriends Tintin.
39.
As a result of this experience Herg?would strive, in " The Blue Lotus " and subsequent Tintin adventures, to be meticulously accurate in depicting the places Tintin visited.
40.
This two-part series was the first that Herg?had produced since " Cigars of the Pharaoh " and " The Blue Lotus " ( 1934 36 ).
