Claude Cadart (Chinese: 高达乐; pinyin: Gāo Dálè;[1] 12 November 1927 – 4 May 2019) was a French sinologist and a specialist in the history of contemporary China.
Together with his wife Cheng Yingxiang, he translated and published the memoirs of his father-in-law Peng Shuzhi, a dissident Trotskyist early leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
[2] In the early 1960s, Cadart became a researcher at the Centre de recherches internationales [fr] (CERI) of Sciences Po and dedicated himself to the study of contemporary China.
[3] Cadart and Cheng organized, translated into French, and published the memoirs of Peng Shuzhi,[3] which exposed an aspect of Communist China little known to the outside world at the time.
[1][2] After Mao's death in 1976 and the advent of the Deng Xiaoping era, Cadart assisted Cheng with her book Dégel de l’intelligence en Chine.