Missionary and the Libertine Love and War in East and West by Ian Buruma, Ian Buruma

Missionary and the Libertine Love and War in East and West

Ian Buruma, Ian Buruma

352 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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For centuries Westerners have projected fan-tasies of a decadent, voluptuous East in contrast to the puritanism of their own cultures. A Japanese theatrical troupe performing in his native Holland in 1971 exposed the young Ian Buruma to these temp...

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