Monday, January 23, 2017

Pierre Ryckmans (1935 - 2014) (pen-name Simon Leys)

Pierre Ryckmans (1935 - 2014) (pen-name Simon Leys)

Chinese Shadows (1977) 


The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1978) (abebook, 2017-1-23)



'One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool.’ (Orwell, 1945)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/world/pierre-ryckmans-78-dies-exposed-maos-hard-line.html?_r=0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEd09kX0ZuWnB5S2c/view?usp=sharing