Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing - Hardcover

"Ian Buruma is a powerful storyteller. . . . Bad Elements is the best book yet written on Chinese dissidents." --The New York Review of Books

"[Buruma is] one of the sharpest minds writing about Asia. . . . A brilliant examination . . . impressively comprehensive." --The Wall Street Journal

"[Buruma's] sharply observed and well-drawn portraits of obstinate, courageous and sometimes flawed people inspire admiration and compassion....A vivid history of repression and resistance." --The New York Times Book Review

"An intellectual travelogue that gradually circles Beijing before ending up there...Buruma has a good eye for the small ironies of exile." --The Washington Post Book World

Ian Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan. He has spent many years in Asia, which he has written about in God's Dust, A Japanese Mirror, and Behind the Mask. He has also written Playing the Game, The Wages of Guilt, and Anglomania. Buruma is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.