Alain Roux (Chinese name: Chinese: 鲁林; pinyin: Lǔ Lín[1]) is a French historian, sinologist, university professor emeritus at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco).
[2] He has also written substantial biographies of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong.
Alain Roux obtained l'agrégation d’histoire in 1960, he has been professor emeritus since 2002.
[3] His research has focused on the Chinese labor movement in Shanghai before the Communist Party came to power in 1949, Shanghainese society during the Kuomintang era, and the intellectual Qu Qiubai.
Regarding the book Le Singe et le Tigre : Mao, un destin chinois published in 2009, the sinologist Lucien Bianco indicates that this monumental biography of Mao Zedong "is not only very detailed, it is reliable, generally accurate and always impartial" .