Writer Ian Buruma was born in the Netherlands in 1951. He attended university in Japan and has spent a large part of his adult life in Asia. His nonfiction works include "The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan," "Behind the Mask," "A Japanese Mirror" and "Voltaire's Coconuts." Buruma is a contributor to newspapers and magazines in the United States and Britain, including The Guardian, The New York Times and Time.
Your latest book, "Bad Elements," has just been published.
It's about Chinese dissidents and begins with the exiles, mostly in America, the student leaders from the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 and others. Then it goes closer to Peking via Taiwan and Singapore and Hong Kong.