# The China Lover

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- Book: [The China Lover](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/the-china-lover) ([The China Lover.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma/the-china-lover.md))
- Authors: [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-608-0
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2009-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U. S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective...