Simon Leys (1935–2014)
Autor de The Death of Napoleon
Sobre El Autor
Pierre Ryckmans was born on September 28, 1935 in Brussels, Belgian. He studied law and art history at the Catholic University of Louvain. At the age of 19, he was one of a delegation of young Belgians invited to China on a trip that included a meeting with Zhou Enlai, the premier under Mao. He mostrar más spent 12 years in the Far East, where he became an expert on Chinese painting, calligraphy and poetry. In Hong Kong, he monitored the Chinese press on behalf of Belgian diplomats. He taught at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1970. He primarily wrote under the pen name Simon Leys. He criticized Mao's cultural revolution in his first two books, Les Habits Neufs du Président Mao (The Chairman's New Clothes) and Ombres Chinoises (Chinese Shadows). His other works included The Death of Napoleon and The Wreck of the Batavia. He died of cancer on August 11, 2014 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Simon Leys
Chinese Shadows: 2 8 copias
I detti di Confucio 1 copia
National Geographic World Cultures and Geograph (Southwest Asia & North Africa) Teacher's Edition (2016) 1 copia
Allo ! Congo ! 1 copia
A Morte de Napoleão 1 copia
Ensaios sobre a China 1 copia
Studio nieużyteczności : eseje 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Execution of Mayor Yin, and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chinese Literature in… (1978) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 114 copias
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek : Un siècle d'histoire de la Chine (2010) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 11 copias
National Geographic World Cultures and Geograph (Australia, The Pacific Realm & Antarctica) Teacher's Edition (2016) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Ryckmans, Pierre
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1935-09-28
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2014-08-11
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Belgium (birth)
Australia (naturalized) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Brussels, Belgium
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Taiwan
Belgium
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Educación
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
National Taiwan University - Ocupaciones
- sinologist
university professor
translator
art historian - Relaciones
- Ryckmans, Han-fang Chang (wife)
- Organizaciones
- Australian National University
University of Sydney - Premios y honores
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (2005)
Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities
Member, Academie Royale de Literature Francaise
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