Volume 24, Number 10 · June 9, 1977

Chinese Shadows: Bureaucracy, Happiness, History

By Simon Leys

Note: Simon Leys is the pseudonym of a Belgian art historian and Sinologist who has lived and worked in China and other parts of the Far East for more than a decade. This is the second of two articles drawn from parts of his book Chinese Shadows. The first appeared in the May 26th issue.



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