Ian Buruma
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Ian Buruma in conversation at the 2006 Texas Book Festival in Austin.
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| Born |
December 28, 1951 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Writer, historian |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Subject | China, Japan, Occidentalism, Orientalism |
Ian Buruma (born December 28, 1951) is a Dutch writer and historian who lives and works in the United States. Much of his work focuses on the culture of Asia, particularly that of China and 20th-century Japan. He has been the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College since 2003.
He was born and reared in The Hague, Netherlands, to a Dutch father and British mother. He studied Chinese literature at Leiden University, and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions, and has contributed numerous articles to The New York Review of Books. He has been noted as a "well-regarded European intellectual".
In 2000 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture (on "Neoromanticism of writers in exile") in the Pieterskerk in Leiden, Netherlands. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and St Antony's College in Oxford, UK. In 2003 he became Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, New York.
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