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 Author Page - IAN BURUMA
Recent Foreign Affairs articles: One document found. displaying 1 to 1.Taiwan's New Nationalists: Democracy with Taiwanese Characteristics Ian Buruma July/August 1996 Summary: The Nationalist Party still holds the reins of government, but Lee Teng-hui, elected in Taiwan's first direct presidential contest in March, has brought the island a long way from the repressive regime of Chiang Kai-shek. Himself a native of Taiwan, Lee has opened up his party as well as the political system, divesting the mainlanders who arrived in 1949 and governed the country for decades of much of their power. Their dream of reunification has gone the way of their might, replaced by the native Taiwanese desire for an independent country. As Taiwan's newborn democracy matures, homegrown nationalism will carry the day. read 500-word preview | click for more information
Recent books reviewed in Foreign Affairs: 7 documents found; displaying 1 to 7.Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies.Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. March/April 2004 read
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing.Ian Buruma. New York: Random House, 2001. March/April 2002 read
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West.Ian Buruma. New York: Random House, 2000. November/December 2000 read
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan.Ian Buruma. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. September/October 1994 read
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