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Average rating: 3.71 · 141 ratings · 27 reviews · 27 distinct works

	The Death of Napoleon 3.20 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Analectas by Confucius, Simon Leys 3.71 avg rating — 2,747 ratings — published 1955 — 114 editions	My rating:
	The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Chinese Shadows 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Essais sur la Chine 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	With Stendahl 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	bonheur des petits poissons: lettres des antipodes 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	humeur, l'honneur, l'horreur: essais sur la culture et la politique chinoises 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Les habits neufs du président Mao 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1971	My rating:

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“Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see China perish from famine rather than readjust his own vision or recognize his mistakes.”
― Simon Leys, The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

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