LEADER 02728nam 2200469 450 001 9910815402603321 005 20230808205653.0 010 $a1-925435-56-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000188450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4790814 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4790814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11424288 035 $a(OCoLC)1001385025 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000188450 100 $a20170908h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSimon Leys $enavigator between worlds /$fPhilippe Paquet ; translated by Julie Rose 210 1$aCarlton, Victoria :$cLa Trobe University Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 664 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits 300 $a"Originally published in French by Gallimard, 2016"--Title page verso. 311 $a1-86395-920-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aSimon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. He died in 2014.Writing in three languages ? French, Chinese and English ? he played an important political role in revealing the true nature of the Cultural Revolution. His writing on China and on varied literary and cultural topics appeared regularly in the New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, Quadrant and the Monthly, and his books include The Hall of Uselessness, The Death of Napoleon, Other People?s Thoughts and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the ABC?s Boyer Lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca, the Prix Guizot and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.This substantial biography ? recently published by Gallimard in France to wide acclaim and winning an award from the Académie Francaise ? draws on extensive correspondence with Ryckmans, as well as his unpublished writings. It has been translated by an internationally renowned French translator Julie Rose (based in Sydney). 606 $aAuthors, Belgian$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aSinologists$zBelgium$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Belgian 615 0$aSinologists 676 $a843.914 700 $aPaquet$b Philippe$01598213 702 $aRose$b Julie 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815402603321 996 $aSimon Leys$93920303 997 $aUNINA