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Politics

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By John K. Fairbank, Jonathan D Spence, Simon Leys, Martin Bernal
| ChinaFile
Passing the Baton in Beijing from New York Review of Books Succession has become an omnipresent problem not only in China but throughout Asia. Long-lasting regimes under aging rulers are entering their twilight zone in North Korea, Burma, and Indonesia, and face a period of weakness and uncertainty, for the...
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Simon Leys, Les idées des autres

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By Simon Leys
| Fabula
«"La plupart des gens sont d'autres gens", disait Oscar Wilde. "Leurs pensées sont les opinions de quelqu'un d'autre ; leur vie est une imitation ; leurs passions, une citation.
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After the Massacres

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By Simon Leys
| New York Review of Books Verified
After the Massacres A historian of contemporary China who is considering the events of three years ago, of ten years ago, of twenty years ago, must feel dizzy: each time, it is the same story, the plot is identical—one needs only to change the names of a few characters. The grim merry-go-round leads nowhere; it merely spins, ever more squeaky and rickety; the bloody contraption can only crush with increasing brutality a populace thirsting for freedom.
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