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Rev. László Ladány (January 14, 1914 - September 23, 1990) was a Hungarian Jesuit, China watcher, author and editor of ''China News Analysis'', an influential periodical on Chinese affairs.〔( "Laszlo Ladany, China Expert, 76" ), The New York Times, 26 September 1990.〕 ==Biography== After the Communist revolution in 1949 László Ladány and other Jesuits were forced to flee China and he settled in Hong Kong.〔 He began publishing ''China News Analysis'' in 1953 from the University of Hong Kong, and became well known by China watchers and journalists around the world. Ladány based his assessments and conclusions mainly on readings of official Chinese documents, and was consistently critical of Communist Party rule, earning him the ire of Communist Party supporters abroad. Ladány, who was variously called a "fanatical anti-Communist" by critics and as "the most exact and consistently correct observer" of mainland Chinese politics by admirers,〔''Law and Legality in China: The Testament of a China-Watcher'', by Laszlo Ladany, edited by Jürgen Domes and Marie-Luise Näth. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1992.〕 possessed an uncanny ability to draw meaning out of often cryptic official Chinese documents.〔Simon Leys, ( "The Art of Interpreting Nonexistent Inscriptions Written in Invisible Ink on a Blank Page" ), ''The New York Review of Books'', 11 October 1990.〕 Jürgen Domes described him as having attained "unprecedented prestige as a China scholar, () the doyen of the international community of observers of contemporary Chinese politics".〔''Law and Legality in China: The Testament of a China-Watcher'', by Laszlo Ladany, edited by Jürgen Domes and Marie-Luise Näth. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1992.〕 Ladány served as the sole editor of ''China News Analysis'' from its founding until 1982, when he left the journal to pursue a career as an author. The sinologist Simon Leys gleaned much information from "the superb ''China News Analysis'', ... published weekly in Hong Kong by the Jesuit scholar Father Laszlo Ladany"〔Ian Buruma, ("The Man Who Got It Right" ), The New York Review of Books, 15 August 2013.〕 while compiling reports that would become the basis of his 1971 book ''Les Habits neufs du président Mao''. In 1975 that book was awarded the ''Prix Jean Walter, prix d’histoire et de sociologie'' by the Académie française and in 1978 it was published in English as ''The Chairman's New Clothes''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「László Ladány」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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