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The thought of hearing back from Simon Leys filled me with dread. It was late 1976 and I was an exchange student at a university in Shenyang, in northeast China. I’d only recently learned that Pierre Ryckmans, the man who had taught me Chinese, was none other than Simon Leys, a writer both celebrated and reviled in the French-speaking world. ....
Chairman Mao’s conquest of China on 1 October 1949 marked the start of the China holocaust (I use a small “h” as I appreciate the uniqueness of “the” Holocaust of the Jews). Historian Antony Beevor estimates 70 million innocent men, women, and children died under Mao’s regime. At the University of Auckland in July 1993, a handful of students and academics sat in the living room of a 19th-century merchant house listening to visiting Sinologist Professor Jonathan Spence explain why Chairman Mao was one of the 20th century’s “Great Leaders.” This was too much to bear for my teacher, China holocaust survivor Professor Pang Binjun, a Christian who stood up and with considerable emotion countered, “What about the Cultural Revolution?” ....