The Missionary And The Libertine by Ian Buruma
Love and War in East and West
A collection of essays that probes how East and West imagine each other through lenses of desire and moral certainty, tracing encounters shaped by colonial legacies, war memory, human rights debates, and popular culture. Ranging across Japan, China, Indonesia, and Europe, it unpacks fantasies of the exotic and the civilized, the puritan and the permissive, and how these myths play out in bedrooms, courtrooms, and public squares. The result is a portrait of mutual projection and misunderstanding that illuminates the tangled ties of love, power, and history.
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