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Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Australia from 1970. His work particularly focused on the politics and traditional culture of China ...
Mar 3, 2023 · Simon Leys — the cosmopolitan scholar who broke the rules of Sinology. March 3, 2023. Michael Sheridan. The spiritedly rebellious work of the scholar and aesthete remains an invaluable guide to the politics of China half a century after he first challenged the bland orthodoxies of Sinology. Simon Leys (aka Pierre Ryckmans), 1935-2014.
ISBN. 0-670-21918-5. Chinese Shadows is a book written by Simon Leys, which is the pseudonym for Belgian Sinologist Pierre Ryckmans. It was originally published in the French language in 1974 under the title Ombres chinoises, and was then translated into English in 1977. The book is about Leys' six-month stay in China, which he made in 1972.
Simon Leys, nom de plume de Pierre Ryckmans, né le 28 septembre 1935 à Uccle (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale) et mort le 11 août 2014 à Sydney, est un écrivain, essayiste, critique littéraire, traducteur, historien de l'art, sinologue et professeur d'université de double nationalité belge et australienne [1], de langue française et anglaise et de confession catholique [2].
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Nov 13, 2017 · Pierre Ryckmans - also known by his nom-de-plume, Simon Leys - was an inspirational teacher, the bête-noire of sinology and an outspoken public intellectual. A new biography tells his story.
Jan 24, 2018 · The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys (New York Review of Books Classics, 2013. 572 pp.) Simon Leys (1935-2014), born Pierre Rykmans, was perhaps the last Catholic man of letters.
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Jun 8, 2018 · Simon Leys: Navigator between Worlds review. Pierre Ryckmans, who wrote under the name Simon Leys, on the Great Wall of China, 1955. Ryckmans Family Archives. 1. The thought of hearing back from Simon Leys filled me with dread. It was late 1976 and I was an exchange student at a university in Shenyang, in northeast China.
