William L. Gibson

Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1890, a man calling himself Alfred Raquez appeared in Indochina. He published highly detailed travel accounts that open a unique window onto the European presence in the Far East. And yet, through all his travels and rising fame, the man kept a secret that his closest companions would not learn of it until after his death in 1907.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000379754
• Artikelnr.: 61314564

Autorenporträt

William L. Gibson is a full-time writer and editor of both academic and fiction books, based in Southeast Asia. His recent academic appointments have included lecturing in writing and media at Sampoerna University and SAE Institute in Jakarta. He is former Head of the Department of Digital Journalism at SAE Institute, Singapore, and former Assistant Professor at Singapore's National Institute of Education.

His non-fiction publications include Art and Money in the Writing of Tobias Smollett (2007); In the Land of Pagodas, A. Raquez (translation with Paul Bruthiaux; 2017); and Laotian Pages, A. Raquez (translation with Paul Bruthiaux; 2018). His Singapore Trilogy of hard-boiled crime novels set in 1890s Malaya and Singapore is published by Monsoon Books.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mitchell
Innes and Orts
Who is M. Raquez?
Batavia
King Norodom and Master Léopold
A Water
borne Mirage
Doctor of Law
Slow Boat to China 2. In the Land of Pagodas
Exote Flâneur Punk
The Paris of the Orient
General Chen Jitong
Not a single li is level
The Sounds of Guiyang
Vérascope Richard
Mayflies 3. Sugar Stick
Bird or Mouse?
Governor General Doumer
Endangered Species
Liquor and Opium
I always carry a khene in my luggage
Good Enough to Eat
Muang Sing
Soul
piercing Desolation
Le Comptoir Laotien 4. Le Petit Lac
F. H. Schneider
Laotian Pages
Mysterious Angkor
L'exposition de Hanoi
Human Zoos
Adventures with the Press Corps
Governor General Beau
War with Challaye 5. Famine in Guangxi, Railroads in Guangzhou
Norodom's Last Bon Om Touk
Salome in Singapore
Chulalongkorn's Jubilee
Sel Hybat
Is the Emperor Mad?
Even the dead are partying
Farewell to the King of the Khmers
Typhoon 6. Adieu, Hanoi
The Conquest of Hearts
Instructions pour les voyageurs
Postcards and Singing Ghosts
What Day is This?
Sisavang Vong's Dancing Rats
Everyone wanted to see the King's funeral pyre 7. Home Again
The Colonial Exposition of 1906
Pigeon Coop
La plus gracieuse des Ballerines laotiennes
Sisowath's Royal Troupe
Avant Garde Exoticism
The Christopher Columbus of Laos
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 8. Black Pox or Death by Valentine?
Eulogies and Monuments
L'affaire Gervais
Loose Ends
The Unknowable
Fading Traces
The Repressed Returns 9. Longing for the Past