In 1973, Georges Remi was invited to visit China, taking up an invitation that had been made over three decades previously when he wrote The Blue Lotus.
Remi, better known as Herge, would have been delighted to learn that the reporter whose adventures had occupied his working life has finally followed in his footsteps.
The Tintin adventures were on the list of forbidden Western imports into China for the longest time, and their entry into the country last week was not uncontroversial. Tintin, or Dingding as he
