Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys

Description

This book is based on the description of writer’s experience in China, comparing what he saw with the common knowledge of a society, to demonstrate how the traditional cultural nation and it’s people impacted by the Cultural Revolution.

The best aspect of this book is that the opinion always remains objective, through which the author is able to disclose the real face of history with his tremendous knowledge on China, society and the rigorous archaeologist logic. This allow us to approach the facts through the archaeologist‘s point of view. The book telling me many shocking stories during the Cultural Revolution which mostly blocked in China nowadays, which help me understand the behavior of the society more deeply.