{"product_id":"2026200013700-secondhand-broken-images-essays-on-chinese-culture-and-politics","title":"Broken Images: Essays On Chinese Culture And Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an age when Western intellectuals were seduced by romantic visions of Maoist China, Simon Leys stood apart as one of the most clear-eyed and courageous critics of the regime, and Broken Images: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics presents a stunning collection of his most penetrating analyses. Drawing on his deep knowledge of Chinese history, literature, and art, Leys systematically dismantles the propaganda myths surrounding Communist China, exposing the cultural devastation wrought by ideological tyranny and the intellectual dishonesty of its Western apologists.\n\nWritten with the precision of a scholar and the mordant wit of a master polemicist, these essays traverse a vast landscape—from the destruction of classical Chinese culture to the moral bankruptcy of revolutionary politics—arguing with unflinching conviction that truth must never be sacrificed at the altar of ideology. Leys' prose carries the elegant ferocity of an essayist in the tradition of Orwell, holding up a mirror to a world too comfortable with comfortable lies. For anyone seeking to understand the complex interplay between culture, power, and intellectual responsibility in modern China, Broken Images remains an indispensable and thoroughly unsettling reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160912765147,"sku":"2026200013700-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9f9d8d57-831d-4daa-a4bd-67cf0663c517.png?v=1787188380","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013700-secondhand-broken-images-essays-on-chinese-culture-and-politics","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}