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An edition of The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West (1996)

The missionary and the libertine

love and war in East and West

1st U.S. ed.

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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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Random House
Language
English
Pages
319

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Subjects

East and West, International relations and culture, Cross-cultural studies, Social change, Social change -- Asia -- Cross-cultural studies, New York Times reviewed, Sociology

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Asia
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Cover of: The Missionary and the Libertine
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West
August 14, 2001, Vintage
in English
Cover of: The missionary and the libertine
The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West
2000, Random House
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: The missionary and the libertine
The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West
1996, Faber
in English
Cover of: The missionary and the libertine
The missionary and the libertine: love and war in East and West
1996, Faber
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-319).
Originally published: London ; Boson : Faber, 1996.

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New York
Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

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Dewey Decimal Class
303.4/095
Library of Congress
HN652.5 .B87 2000

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xxv, 319 p. ;
Number of pages
319

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OL49967M
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037550222X
LCCN
99053744
OCLC/WorldCat
42717020
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58145
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1296843

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