Ian Buruma

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name = Ian Buruma

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birthplace = The Hague, Netherlands
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occupation = Writer, Lecturer
nationality = Dutch
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genre = Non-fiction
subject = Japan, Occidentalism, Orientalism
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website = http://www.ianburuma.com

Ian Buruma (born December 28, 1951) is an Anglo-Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan.

He was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, to a Dutch father and English mother. He studied Chinese literature at Leiden University, and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions, and has contributed numerous articles to the "New York Review of Books". He was been noted as a "well-regarded European intellectual" [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2008%20-%20Winter/full-backbone-berman-buruma.html] as well as being "arrogant and narrow-minded". [ [http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/litteratur/artikel_1704037.svd] ] , while his writings have been criticised as reliant on stereotypes [http://www.signandsight.com/features/1173.html] .

He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C and St Antony's College, Oxford. In 2003 he became Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, New York.

Since 2005 he has resided in New York.

Works

*"The Japanese Tattoo" (1980) with Donald Richie
*"Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes" (1983)
*"Tokyo: Form and Spirit" (1986) with James R. Brandon, Kenneth Frampton, Martin Friedman, Donald Richie
*"God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey" (1989)
*"Great Cities of the World: Hong Kong" (1991)
*"Playing the Game" (1991) novel
*"The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and in Japan" (1994)
*"Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art" (1998) with Jodi Cobb
*"Voltaire's Coconuts, or Anglomania in Europe" (UK title) (1998) or "Anglomania: a European Love Affair" (US title) (1999)
*"The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West" (2000)
*"Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing" (2001)
*"Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle 1853-1964" (2003)
*"Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies" (2004) with Avishai Margalit
*"Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance" (2006)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.ianburuma.com/ Official Website] , with [http://www.ianburuma.com/curriculum_vitae.htm curriculum vitae]
* [http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/48/description Ian Buruma's monthly op/ed commentary series, "Crossing Cultures"] for Project Syndicate
* [http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=519 Ian Buruma discusses "A Murder in Amsterdam"] [Video]
* [http://www.journalisted.com/ian-buruma Journalisted - Articles by Ian Buruma]