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  The China Lover

  by Ian Buruma

  A transfixing portrait of a woman and a nation eagerly burying the past to transform the future . In his enthralling new novel, Ian Buruma uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens through which to understand the lure of erotic fantasies in the conquest of nations. The China Lover reveals the catastrophic results when theater and politics blend in a lethal manner. In her earliest days Ri... (more)