Ian Buruma, author portrait
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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 and Bloomberg. He is a professor at Bard College and lives in New York City.
The Collaborators
The Churchill Complex
A Tokyo Romance
Their Promised Land
Year Zero
The China Lover
Conversations with John Schlesinger
Murder in Amsterdam
Occidentalism
Inventing Japan
Bad Elements
The Missionary and the Libertine
Anglomania

Books

The Collaborators
The Churchill Complex
A Tokyo Romance
Their Promised Land
Year Zero
The China Lover
Conversations with John Schlesinger
Murder in Amsterdam
Occidentalism
Inventing Japan
Bad Elements
The Missionary and the Libertine
Anglomania

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