Jean-Louis Margolin is a French academic specialising in the history of eastern Asia. His positions include coordinator and lecturer in history at the University of Provence, and for the Research Institute on Southeast Asia of CNRS. Margolin's works include L'armée de l'empereur: Violences et crimes du Japon en guerre 1937-1945, which was awarded the Augustin Thierry literary prize in 2007. He was one of authors of The Black Book of Communism.

El libro negro del comunismo: crímenes, terror, represión
1997
ISBN 9788466643436
Singapour
1989
ISBN 9782738400222
L'armée de l'empereur
2007
ISBN 9782200266974