The tragic conscience of modern China's most revered critic-translator is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archives by the biographer illuminate Fou Lei's youthful journey, a little-known cross-cultural story; a global intellectual history.

This edition is a revised version of Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth (Brill, 2017; Hermits United, 2023).

It is a concomitant publication of Fou Lai. Un heros vaincu, translated into the French by Mael Renouard.