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Ian Johnson


Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has spent most of his adult life in China, working as a correspondent for The New York Times, New York Review of Books, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of other books that also focus on the intersection of politics and civil society, including The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, and Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China.

Books by Ian Johnson

The Souls of China
The human story of the vast changes now transforming China, with religion sweeping up millions of people in ways which are a profound threat to the Communist Party.
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Sparks
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
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Wild Grass
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals
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