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Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands. He studied Chinese at Leiden University and cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and New York. He is a regular contributor to Harper’s and The New Yorker and writes monthly columns for Project Syndicate. He is a professor at Bard College and lives in New York City.
Stay Alive
A Tokyo Romance
Their Promised Land
Year Zero
The China Lover
Murder in Amsterdam
Occidentalism
Inventing Japan
Bad Elements
The Missionary and the Libertine
Anglomania

Books

Stay Alive
A Tokyo Romance
Their Promised Land
Year Zero
The China Lover
Murder in Amsterdam
Occidentalism
Inventing Japan
Bad Elements
The Missionary and the Libertine
Anglomania

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