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Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics
This novel begins with the startling assumption that Napoleon is not dead....
Collected Essays
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literatur...
Mao and the Cultural Revolution
Simon Leys, novelist, unflinching cultural and political commentator, Sinologist, and occasional illustrator, presents here timely meditations on the ...
ʻA book is a mirror; if an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out.’ –G. C. Lichtenberg ‘The desire to go into politics is u...
&, Prosper
In this riveting account of the shipwreck of the Batavia, Leys travels to the site of the disaster and reveals the brutality and tragedy of the bloody...
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Collected Essays, 1983-1998
'Political parties are a marvellous mechanism . . . If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more cl...
In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived, only to becom...
‘Political parties are a marvellous mechanism ... If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more cl...
With Stendhal is a delightful portrait of the nineteenth century French novelist Henri Beyle' better known to us as Stendhal. Two linked texts' introd...
A Novella
By means of an ingenious escape on an unlikely vessel, Napoleon returns to Europe, experiencing en route bizarre adventures, not least a guided tour o...
Writings on the University An
""Confucius said- 'An educated man is not a pot'. A pot, or a tool, has only limited capacity and a narrow, specialised use. The aim of education is t...
Writings on the University