that book is a bit racist, as is tintin in the land of the soviets. it wasn't until a chinese student read that herge was working on a tintin story set in china (tintin and the blue lotus) and asked him not to portray the chinese as crudely as he had portrayed other races and nations in all his preceeding stories that herge started to undertake the thorough research that lead tintin to becoming such a benchmark comic series.
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