Abstract
Abstract The treatment accorded the writings of Simon Leys on China by the serious press around the world raises some serious questions not only about China, but about the responsibilities of both scholars and socialists. I shall return to this matter at the end, but first Leys himself. The greater part of The Chairman's New Clothes is a blow-by-blow account of the Cultural Revolution between February 1967 and October 1969. During this period the author was living in Hong Kong where he was able to follow events through the local Chinese-language press (pp.305-6) and encounters with Red Guards and others who came out of China, as well as from the major Peking sources, the Renmin ribao (People's Daily) and the monthly Hongai (Red Flag).
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