Claim: Timothy Brook, who co-wrote Death by a Thousand Cuts, spoke various languages and has worked as a sinologist, historian, and writer.
Evidence: Death by a Thousand Cuts, with Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008. English, Chinese, French, Japanese Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology).