A noted Belgian art historian and sinologist offers his observations on and judgments of life in today's China, calling attention to events and facts recently, and deliberately, suppressed or overlooked

Chinese Shadows

LEYS, SIMON

Travel

Penguin??Books

The Chairman's new clothes: Mao and the cultural revolution

Offers a detailed month-by-month account of the events of the Cultural Revolution and analyzes their legacy in current Chinese politics

The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

History

RYCKMANS, Pierre

Asia

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Death of Napoleon

Napoleon has escaped St. Helena, but the impersonator he left in his place has unexpectedly passed away. Travelling incognito through the Continent, he experiences a series of bizarrre adventures that bring him face to face with the myth of Napoleon as it is disconcertingly played out in everyday life.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Picador

A hypothetical account of what could have happened if Napolean had not died depicts the Emperor traveling incognito through Europe experiencing a series of bizarre adventures that bring him face to face with reality.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Napoleon has escaped St. Helena, but the impersonator he left in his place has unexpectedly passed away. Travelling incognito through the Continent, he experiences a series of bizarrre adventures that bring him face to face with the myth of Napoleon as it is disconcertingly played out in everyday life.

Noonday Pr

Travelling incognito, Napoleon experiences a series of weird adventures, among them a trip to Waterloo in the company of a group of English tourists and near arrest at the French border. He eventually arrives in Paris and falls in with some veteran Bonapartistes and a widow who sells melons.

Death of Napoleon

Genre Fiction

Random House Value Publishing

The distinguished sinologist and art historian, who has served as cultural attache at the Belgian Embassy in Peking, reflects on China's past and present in essays that trace the links between Chinese culture and politics

The Burning Forest: Essays on Culture and Politics in Contemporary China

Paladin

A noted Belgian art historian and sinologist offers his observations on and judgments of life in today's China, calling attention to events and facts recently, and deliberately, suppressed or overlooked

Chinese Shadows (English and French Edition)

Viking Adult

This novel begins with the startling assumption that Napoleon is not dead.

Quartet Books Ltd.

The distinguished sinologist and art historian, who has served as cultural attache at the Belgian Embassy in Peking, reflects on China's past and present in essays that trace the links between Chinese culture and politics

The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (English and French Edition)

Henry Holt Co.

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Chinese Shadows

The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

The Death of Napoleon

The Death of Napoleon

The Death of Napoleon

Death of Napoleon

The Burning Forest: Essays on Culture and Politics in Contemporary China

Chinese Shadows (English and French Edition)

The Death of Napoleon

The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (English and French Edition)