la politique (Paris: Hermann, 1984; Plon, 2006) The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985) La Mort de Napoléon (Paris: Herrmann, 1986) "The Chinese Attitude Towards the Past" (presented as the Forty-seventh Morrison Lecture, 16 July 1986; republished in China Heritage Quarterly, No. 14, June 2008) Confucius, Les Entretiens de Confucius (Paris: Gallimard, 1987) – translation from Chinese to French, notes and commentary by Pierre Ryckmans Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Deux années sur le gaillard d'avant (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1990) – translation from English to French and commentary by Pierre Ryckmans L'humeur, l'honneur, l'horreur: Essais sur la culture et la politique chinoises (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1991) The Death of Napoleon (London: Quartet Books, 1991; Sydney: Allen & Unwin Australia, 1991) Aspects of Culture (Boyer Lectures, 1996): Lecture 1, "Introduction; Learning"; Lecture 2, "Reading"; Lecture 3, "Writing"; Lecture 4, "Going Abroad and Staying Home". The View from the Bridge: Aspects of Culture (Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1996) Confucius, The Analects of Confucius (New York/London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997) – translation from Chinese to English and commentary by Pierre Ryckmans Essais sur la Chine (Paris: Laffont, 1998, Collection "Bouquins") L'Ange et le Cachalot (Paris: Seuil, 1998) The Angel and the Octopus: Collected Essays, 1983–1998 (Sydney: Duffy and Snellgrove, 1999) Protée et autres essais (Paris: Gallimard, 2001) – awarded the 2001 Prix Renaudot de l'Essai La Mer dans la littérature française: de François Rabelais à Pierre Loti (Paris: Plon, 2003. 2 volumes.) Les Naufragés du Batavia, suivi de Prosper (Paris: Arléa, 2003) – awarded the 2004 Prix Guizot-Calvados The Wreck of the Batavia: A True Story (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2005) Les Idées des autres, idiosyncratiquement compilées pour l'amusement des lecteurs oisifs (Paris, Plon: 2005) Other People's Thoughts: Idiosyncratically compiled by Simon Leys for the amusement of idle readers (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2007) The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2011) Le Studio de l'inutilité (Paris: Flammarion, 2012) Simone Weil, On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2013) – translation from French to English by Pierre Ryckmans For a more comprehensive list of his publications in various languages and editions, see WorldCat for Pierre Ryckmans and Simon Leys; see also this list of articles by Simon Leys in The New York Review of Books. See also Chinese Shadows Claude Cadart, French sinologist and early