# The Hall of Uselessness

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- Book: [The Hall of Uselessness](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-leys/the-hall-of-uselessness) ([The Hall of Uselessness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-leys/the-hall-of-uselessness.md))
- Authors: [Simon Leys](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-leys)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-620-7
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2013-07-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the...