Event: CNA National Security Seminar Series — Oct. 21

Asia expert Ian Buruma will discuss "Democracy in China: A Pipe Dream?" Buruma will also expand on his January 29, 2010 Wall Street Journal essay “Battling the Information Barbarians” in which he posited that China views the ideas of foreigners – from 17th Century missionaries to 21st Century Internet entrepreneurs – as subversive imports and threats to the legitimacy of the state, and argued that Chinese nationalism has replaced Chinese Marxism as the new orthodoxy. Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College and the author of Inventing Japan, the China Lover, and Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents