The Missionary and the Libertine Love and War in East and West

In a stunning collection of essays, Ian Buruma examines the relationship between Asia and the West. Through literary criticism, political commentary, meditations on the ephemera of popular culture and biographies of eccentric colonialists, he investigates and seeks to refute the notion that an absolute division between East and West exists, in a work that confirms his reputation as one of the world's leading writers on Asian affairs.