La Jonque céleste

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Yoko Tsuno
La Jonque céleste
Comics by Roger Leloup
Released 1998
Publisher Dupuis
Genre Bande dessinée
Pages 48
Yoko Tsuno chronology
La Porte des âmes
(1996)
La Jonque céleste
(1998)
La Pagode des brumes
(2001)

La Jonque céleste (The Celestial Barge) is the twenty-second book from Yoko Tsuno comic book series written by Roger Leloup and published in 1998. (ISBN 2-8001-2587-X)

[edit] Plot

During a visit to China, the country of her ancestors, Yoko will live one of the most magical adventures of her existence. Removing from a greedy archaeologist a mysterious ball of ivory and a very old doll, our electrical engineer will discover the way to The Seventh Tooth of the Dragon, the tomb of the third wife of Emperor Chen Tsong. But this tomb, dating from the eleventh century, hides one of the saddest chapters in the history of China. Married at an early age, Sin-Yi has been sacrificed at the age of six in mysterious circumstances. Moved by this unjust death, Yoko calls her friends, Vic, Pol and Monya to the rescue and they decide to go back in time to save this innocent little girl, which reminds her of Rosée, her adopted daughter ... [1]

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