Ian Buruma Quotes
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Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself;
Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
1986 Of Christopher Isherwood. In the New Republic, 4 Nov. 
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More Ian Buruma Quotes
A nation of people longing to be12-year-olds or even younger.
Ian Buruma— 1994 Of Japan. The Wages of Guilt.
German memory was like a massivetongue seeking out, over and over, a sore tooth.
Ian Buruma— 1994 The Wages of Guilt.
It was, as we know, not so much eradicated as replaced by a Communist orthodoxy after 1949. And when this orthodoxy began to lose its grip on the Chinese public after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, Chinese officials struggled to find a new set of beliefs to justify their monopoly on power. The ideological hybrid that followed Maoism was "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," a mixture of state capitalism with political authoritarianism.
Ian Buruma— Battling the Information Barbarians China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google.
The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.
Ian Buruma— Battling the Information Barbarians China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google.
