Ian Buruma

author

Ian Buruma (born 1951) is a Dutch writer, historian, and editor who lives and works in the United States. He has written extensively on Asian culture, particularly China and Japan, as well as European history and politics. He served as an editor for The New York Review of Books from 2017 to 2018 and currently holds a professorship at Bard College. His work often explores themes of Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the cultural intersections between East and West.[1]

Themes

  • Asian culture
  • history
  • Orientalism
  • Occidentalism

Works by Ian Buruma

  • East Wind West Wind 2001 · De Verbeelding · book · English ISBN 9074159362 Co-authored with Bertien van Manen.
  • The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship and the End of the Anglo-American Order 2020 · Atlantic Books · book ISBN 978-1-78649-465-8
  • Year Zero: A History of 1945 2013 · Penguin Press · book ISBN 978-1-59420-436-4
  • The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and in Japan 1994 · book ISBN 978-0-452-01156-4

Awards

  • 2008 Erasmus Prize

References

  1. Wikipedia link