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Ian Buruma: The China Lover

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Los Angeles Public Library

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Partner:: Los Angeles Public Library
Location:: Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles, CA
Event Date:: 10.21.08
Speakers:: Ian Buruma,; John Nathan
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Summary: In his enthralling new novel, Buruma - an expert on modern Asia - uses the life of the starlet Yoshiko Yamaguchi as a lens through which to understand the contradictions and complexities of modern Japanese history - Los Angeles Public Library

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Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma is an Anglo-Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan. He was born in the Netherlands, to a Dutch father and English Jewish mother. He studied Chinese literature and then Japanese film at Nihon University in Tokyo. He has held a number of editorial and academic positions and has contributed numerous articles to the New York Review of Books. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C and St. Antony's College, Oxford. In 2003, he became Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, New York.

John Nathan

John Nathan (born 1940) is the translator of Japanese works written by celebrated authors such as Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo Oe. He is also an Emmy-award winning director of several documentaries and author of numerous works on Japan. After graduating from Harvard University, he visited Japan and studied at University of Tokyo. He is presently the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches at least one class a year in the College of Creative Studies. John Nathan's fields include Japanese culture, Japanese literature, Japanese cinema, the theory and practice of translation, and the sociology of business culture. The first American to be admitted as a regular student to the University of Tokyo, he spent many years living and studying in Japan. He is the author of a definitive biography of novelist Yukio Mishima and he has also translated novels by Mishima and by Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe. When Oe received the Nobel Prize in 1994, Nathan accompanied him to Stockholm. Nathan is also an Emmy-award winning producer, writer and director of many films about Japanese culture and society and American business.

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01 hr 26 min 17 sec

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01.: LAPL Introduction

01 min 57 sec

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02.: The China Lover

02 min 52 sec

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03.: Why This Subject

02 min 44 sec

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04.: What The Book is Principally About

04 min 52 sec

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05.: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

02 min 55 sec

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06.: On Writing Historical Fiction

02 min 18 sec

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07.: Passion to Write on Yoshiko Yamaguchi

05 min 34 sec

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08.: On Narrators, Passion in Cinephilia

04 min 15 sec

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09.: Giving Voice to Japanese Characters

04 min 37 sec

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10.: Being Drawn to Japan

04 min 23 sec

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11.: Inspiring Asian Films

03 min 31 sec

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12.: Marlon Brando, Truman Capote and Japanese Film

04 min 11 sec

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13.: Experience of Japanese Culture as an American

05 min 31 sec

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14.: Buruma's Experiences in Japan

03 min 58 sec

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15.: Touring with Red Tent Theatre

05 min 34 sec

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16.: More of Nathan's, Buruma's Experiences in Japan

05 min 11 sec

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17.: Q1: Books Made Into Film

00 min 46 sec

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18.: Q2: Communication With Yamaguchi

01 min 23 sec

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19.: Q3: Japanese and Romans

02 min 52 sec

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20.: Q4: Contemporary Japan as Interesting

02 min 02 sec

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21.: Q5: Views on Kurosawa's 'Lust Caution' and 'Nanking'

05 min 43 sec

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22.: Q6: Do Japanese Look Down on Chinese?

03 min 58 sec

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23.: Q7: Japanese Honest Now About Nanking Massacre, Manchukuo

05 min 01 sec

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Buruma: Japan's History is 'Tool of Political Polemics'

02 min 33 sec

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Ian Buruma says the Japanese political left uses their acknowledgment of past atrocities like the Nanking Massacre as a political strategy.

He believes that Japanese "history has become a tool of political polemics."
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01 hr 26 min 17 sec

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