In the Land of Pagodas: A Classic Account of Travel in Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou 6 october 1976 and the colonial state on

and the colonial state on the Nilgiri Hills

the countries sharing the mainland Southeast Asian massif

the two main protagonists in this conflict

and Western culture

In the Land of Pagodas: A Classic Account of Travel in Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou 6 october 1976 and the colonial state onBy Alfred Raquez Edited and Translated by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux China, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalists eye. Alfred Raquez drifts from Indochina to Hong Kong, Macao and Canton before falling in with a group of shady entrepreneurs in Shanghai with interests far up the Yuan River. In short order, Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into