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"For centuries Westerners have projected fantasies 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 temptations, and soon he was off to Tokyo, a would-be libertine. The essays collected in The Missionary and the Libertine chronicle Buruma's sobering discovery that Asians often have equally distorted visions of the West.".
"Buruma shows that the cultural gap between East and West is not as wide as either missionaries or libertines, in East or West, might think. At home in both worlds, he has provided a splendid counterblast to fashionable theories of clashing civilizations and uniquely Asian values. By stripping away our fantasies, Buruma reveals a world that is all too recognizably human."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West
August 14, 2001, Vintage
in English
0375705376 9780375705373
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The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West
2000, Random House
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
037550222X 9780375502224
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The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West
1996, Faber
in English
0571176356 9780571176359
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The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West
1996, Faber
in English
057117938X 9780571179381
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"A startling article appeared in 1984 in the Japanese edition of Penthouse magazine."
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