Volume 24, Number 9 · May 26, 1977
Chinese Shadows
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. His book Chinese Shadows—from parts of which the following article is drawn—was the result of a six-months stay in China during 1972. His aim, as he writes, is 'not to question the achievements' of the regime, 'which, if not always revolutionary as their Western supporters would claim, are still considerable in many fields.' Rather he wanted only to add 'some shadows, without which even the most luminous portrait lacks depth, offering a few notes—in counterpoint as it were—about some details that have been omitted for some reason or another by…prestigious witnesses.'
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