Ian Johnson (writer)
Ian Johnson | |
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Born | 27 July 1962 |
Education | University of Florida, Free University of Berlin, Harvard University, |
Occupation | Journalist |
Website | www |
Ian Johnson (born July 27, 1962) is a Canadian-born American journalist and independent writer known for his long-time reporting and a series of books on China and Germany. His Chinese name is Zhang Yan (張彦).[1] Johnson writes regularly for The New York Review of Books[2] and The New York Times,[3] and The Wall Street Journal.
Johnson won the 2001
In 2020, Johnson's journalist visa was canceled amid US-China tensions over trade and the COVID-19 epidemic, and he left China.[7] He currently lives in New York, where he is Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.[8]
Life and work
Born in
In 2004, Johnson published Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (Pantheon) on grassroots efforts to form civil society. It was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages.[11]
On February 9, 2006, Johnson delivered
Johnson left the Wall Street Journal in 2010 to pursue magazine and book writing on cultural and social affairs.[13] In 2010, Johnson published A Mosque in Munich, a book about the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.[14] He conducted research on the book while on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University.[15]
In 2017, he published The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao about China's search for meaning and values. It included a 100-page profile of
He has published chapters in three other books: The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, Chinese Characters, and My First Trip to China.[20]
His book Sparks: China's Underground Historians was published in September 2023, and follows various "counter-historians" and dissident figures from China's past and present,[21] including whistleblowers of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
He attended the University of Florida, where he studied Asian Studies and Journalism.[22] He obtained his master's degree in Sinology from the Free University of Berlin.[23] He is currently pursuing a PhD focused on Chinese religious associations at Leipzig University.[24] In April 2022 he re-entered China for a visit, describing it in a Foreign Affairs article as having entered an "age of stagnation."[1]
Bibliography
Books
- Johnson, Ian (2004). Wild grass : three stories of change in modern China. New York: Pantheon Books.
- — (2010). A mosque in Munich : Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- — (2017). The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9781101870051.
- — (2023). Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197575505.
Essays and reporting
- Ex-Colony Weihai Ponders What Might Have Been, Wall Street Journal, June 24, 1997
- Can't We All Just Get Along? Are European Muslims Islam's best hope?, Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2004
- In China, Grass-Roots Groups Stretch Limits on Activism, Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2008
- "Will the Chinese be supreme?", New York Review of Books, 04.04.2013 Will the Chinese Be Supreme?
- Johnson, Ian (April 22, 2013). "Studio city : in a remote spot in China, the world's biggest movie lot is getting even bigger". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 10. pp. 48–55. Profile of Hengdian World Studios.
- — (December 2, 2013). "In the air : discontent grows in Chinas most polluted cities". Letter from Handan. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 39. pp. 32–37.
- — (February 3, 2014). "Class consciousness : China's new bourgeoisie discovers alternative education". Letter from Chengdu. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 47. pp. 34–39.
- Ian Johnson, "What Holds China Together?", ." [p. 16.] "China's rulers have no faith that anything but force can keep this sprawling country intact." [p. 18.]
- A Professor Who Challenges the Washington Consensus on China, The New Yorker, December 13, 2022.
- Xi’s Age of Stagnation, Foreign Affairs, August 22, 2023[25]
References
- ^ "List of Chinese names of western scholars". home.uni-leipzig.de. 2017. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
- ^ "Ian Johnson". The New York Review of Books.
- ^ "Ian Johnson - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com.
- ^ Ian Johnson (2001) Pulitzer Prize winning articles in the Wall Street Journal
- ^ "FSI | Shorenstein APARC - Ian Johnson, longtime foreign correspondent, to receive Shorenstein Journalism Award". aparc.fsi.stanford.edu. 20 March 2017.
- ^ "AAR Announces Winners of 2019 Best In-Depth Newswriting on Religion Contest | aarweb.org". www.aarweb.org.
- ^ Johnson, Ian (16 July 2020). "Kicked Out of China, and Other Real-Life Costs of a Geopolitical Meltdown". The New York Times.
- ^ "Ian Johnson".
- ^ "CHS History | Chamberlain High School Legacy Project | United States". Chamberlain Legacy. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
- ^ "Deng's Heyday". ChinaFile. September 10, 2011.
- ^ "Wild Grass - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
- AIFD
- ^ "Bio". Archived from the original on 2013-01-13. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
- ^ "A Mosque in Munich - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
- ^ "Ian Johnson on A Mosque in Munich: narrative as "the sugar around the medicine"". Nieman Foundation.
- ^ Johnson, Ian (March 25, 2019). "This Chinese Christian Was Charged With Trying to Subvert the State". The New York Times.
- ^ Johnson, Ian (September 29, 2012). "Aiming for Top, Xi Forged Ties Early in China". The New York Times.
- ^ "Books of the Year 2017". The Economist. December 9, 2017.
- ^ "30 best books of 2017". Christian Science Monitor. December 4, 2017.
- ^ "Books - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ "Nieman Watchdog > About Us > Contributor > Ian Johnson". www.niemanwatchdog.org. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. "Ian Johnson". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Universität Leipzig: laufende Promotionen". www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
External links
- Ian Johnson (2001) Pulitzer Prize winning articles in the Wall Street Journal
- Ian Johnson (website)
- "Nieman Watchdog > About Us > Contributor > Ian Johnson". niemanwatchdog.org.
- Language Wars, from Montreal to Beijing
- A Conversation with Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, on China, Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, 25 September 2020. YouTube.