• Pierre Ryckmans may refer to: Pierre Ryckmans (governor-general) (1891-1959), Belgian civil servant, Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1934-46) Pierre...
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  • Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary...
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    count in 1962. Ryckmans was born in Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium, as the sixth child of Alphonse Ryckmans and Clémence Van Ryn. The Ryckmans family originally...
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  • Ryckmans is a surname, and may refer to: Hélène Ryckmans (born 1959), Belgian politician Pierre Ryckmans (1935-2014), Pen name Simon Leys. Belgian-Australian...
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    Belgium had surrendered to Nazi Germany on 28 May 1940, Governor-General Pierre Ryckmans decided that the colony would continue to fight on the side of the...
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    have rendered it differently. James Legge called it Constant Mean, Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys) used Middle Way, while Arthur Waley chose Middle Use...
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    Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 140–161. Ryckmans, Geneviève (1995), André Ryckmans, un territorial du Congo belge. Paris. L'Harmattan, pp...
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    independence under the authority of the Governor-General of the Congo, Pierre Ryckmans. Ryckmans refused to take this advice, and declared on the day of the Belgian...
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    responsibility for customary law and land allocation. Belgian Resident Pierre Ryckmans described the new policy by stating that "the native kings... are the...
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  • to Burundi and established contact with Belgian colonial official Pierre Ryckmans. After the war, the Belgians established a new administration in Burundi...
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    Tilkens (1869–1949) 27 December 1927 14 September 1934 6 years, 261 days Pierre Ryckmans (1891–1959) 14 September 1934 31 December 1946 12 years, 108 days Eugène...
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    1918 Edouard van den Eende, Military Resident January 1919 to 1928 Pierre Ryckmans, Resident 1928 to 12 May 1929 Oscar Defawe, acting Resident 1 February...
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    the Royalist faction in Belgium and the exiled government in London. Pierre Ryckmans was Governor-General of Belgium's principal African colony, the Belgian...
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  • Patrick Fitzgerald Colin Mackerras Robert Henry Mathews John Minford Pierre Ryckmans Yingjie Guo Kevin Rudd Michael Prochazka Simon Leys Roel Sterckx (born...
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    (1908–1960) Théophile Wahis Félix Fuchs Eugène Henry Maurice Lippens Martin Rutten Auguste Tilkens Pierre Ryckmans Eugène Jungers Léo Pétillon Hendrik Cornelis...
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  • famine of 1943–44. In 1946, Jungers was promoted as the replacement for Pierre Ryckmans as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo, the most important administrative...
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    2020 at the Wayback Machine, Cambridge Scholars, 2013. Leys, Simon (Pierre Ryckmans), 'Malraux', in The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (Melbourne:...
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    (1908–1960) Théophile Wahis Félix Fuchs Eugène Henry Maurice Lippens Martin Rutten Auguste Tilkens Pierre Ryckmans Eugène Jungers Léo Pétillon Hendrik Cornelis...
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  • Cultural Revolution edited by Anita Chan. (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1982). Pierre Ryckmans, The Chairman's New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (New York:...
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  • happened during 1934 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-general – Auguste Tilkens, Pierre Ryckmans Belgian Congo History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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  • general (1927–1934) Auguste Tilkens, Governor general (1927–1934) Pierre Ryckmans, Governor general (1934–1946) Eugène Jungers, Governor general (1947–1951)...
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    Alfred Marzorati (1881–1955) May 1919 20 October 1924 5 years, 5 months Pierre Ryckmans (1891–1959) Acting Royal Commissioner November 1921 July 1922 8 months...
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    thesis on Chinese democracy activist Wei Jingsheng was supervised by Pierre Ryckmans, the eminent Belgian-Australian sinologist. During his studies, Rudd...
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  • after the Chinese Communist Revolution included László Ladány and Pierre Ryckmans. Publications by the Consulate-General, which were frequently cited...
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    Shanghai. French translation: Autobiographie : mes années d'enfance, tr. Pierre Ryckmans, Paris, Gallimard, 1970. German translation: Kindheit : Autobiographie...
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    1884-1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691052779. Plasman, Pierre-Luc (5 July 2012). "WAHIS, (Théophile)" (in French). Royal Academy for Overseas...
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  • Sculthorpe, 85, composer 9 August – Jerome Ehlers, 55, actor 11 August – Pierre Ryckmans, 78, diplomat, Australian sinologist and author (Chinese Shadows) 14...
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    Evans, John Crawford, Hedley Bull, Frank Fenner, C. P. Fitzgerald, Pierre Ryckmans, A. L. Basham, Bernhard Neumann, and former Indonesian Vice-president...
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  • that happened during 1935 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-general – Pierre Ryckmans Belgian Congo History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo "AS Vita...
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    Count Maurice de Patoul, Grand Marshall of the Royal Court. Count Pierre Ryckmans, Governor-General of the Belgian Congo. Ludwig Pollak, Czech-born Art...
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