Ian Buruma
Author · 20 books
Ian Buruma is a British-Dutch writer and academic, much of whose work focuses on the culture of Asia, particularly that of 20th-century Japan, where he lived and worked for many years.
Series
Books
Taming the Gods
Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
2010
God's Dust
A Modern Asian Journey
1989
Playing the Game
1991
The Collaborators
Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
2023
Theater of Cruelty
Art, Film, and the Shadows of War
2014
The Churchill Complex
The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit
2020
The Missionary and the Libertine
Love and War in East and West
1996
Anglomania
A European Love Affair
1999
Occidentalism
The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
2004
Inventing Japan
1853-1964
2003
Murder in Amsterdam
The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
2006
In de schaduw van het kwaad
2023
A Tokyo Romance
A Memoir
2018
The China Lover
2008
A Japanese Mirror
Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture
1984
The Churchill Complex
The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship and the End of the Anglo-American Order
2020
Year Zero
A History of 1945
2013
Their Promised Land
My Grandparents in Love and War
2016
Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
2024
Bad Elements
Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
2001
