Simon Leys is the pen name of Pierre Rykmans, a writer, sinologist, and literary critic. The author of many books on the Cultural Revolution in China, he has also translated works from the Chinese such as Analects of Confucius (Norton, 1997) and Le préfet Yin by Chen Jo-hsi (Denoël, 1980). His works translated into English include The Burning Forest: Essays on Culture and Politics in Contemporary China (Henry Holt & Co., 1983), The Chairman’s New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Allison and Busby, 1981), The Death of Napoleon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992) and The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story (Basic Books, 2005).
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