The Moulinsart and Casterman publishing houses are reissuing the original 1936 version of The Blue Lotus – in a newly ... entitled "In China with Tintin", which opened on Friday.

Tintin won't become public property until 70 years after the 1983 death of his creator. We'll have to wait another decade for The Blue Lotus, widely held as the first classic in the series ...

the Japanese invasion of north-eastern China in 1931 which featured in the fifth Tintin adventure, The Blue Lotus (1936). In terms of history many have claimed that the 24 Tintin adventures are ...

quoted in this 2025 edition of The Blue Lotus. In his home country of Belgium, the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, 30km outside Brussels, explores this influence in an exhibition entitled "In China ...