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Ian Johnson (writer)

December 14, 2023

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.

Ian Johnson
Born27 July 1962
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationUniversity of Florida, Free University of Berlin, Harvard University,
OccupationJournalist
Websitewww.ian-johnson.com

Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage in the Wall Street Journal of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.[4] His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2017 he won Stanford University's Shorenstein Prize for his body of work covering Asia.[5] In 2019 he won the American Academy of Religion's "best in-depth newswriting" award.[6]

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 edit

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Johnson is a naturalized United States citizen who lived in Beijing, China, for more than twenty years. He attended Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida.[9] He first visited China as a student in 1984[10] and later studied Chinese in Taiwan. From 1994 to 1997 he worked in Beijing for The Baltimore Sun and from 1997 to 2001 for The Wall Street Journal. After working in Berlin, Germany for nearly eight years he returned to China in 2009.[citation needed]

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 congressional testimony on the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. He described the Brotherhood as "an umbrella group that regularly lobbies major international institutions like the EU and the Vatican" and "controls some of the most dynamic, politically active Muslim groups in key European countries, such as Britain, France and Germany." He said the group has schools "to train imams," has funded a "mechanism in the guise of a UK-registered charity," and has a fatwa council to enforce ideological conformity.[12]

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 Early Rain Reformed Church in Chengdu and its pastor Wang Yi (pastor) who was arrested in 2018 for incitement to subvert state power.[16] It also included one of the last in-depth interviews with the popular Chinese spiritual leader Nan Huai-Chin as well as research on Xi Jinping's support for traditional religions, especially Buddhism, when he was head of Zhengding County in the 1980s.[17] The Souls of China was voted one of the best books of the year by The Economist and The Christian Science Monitor.[18][19]

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 edit

Books edit

  • 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 edit

  • , 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?", The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 14 (26 September 2019), pp. 14, 16, 18. "The Manchus... had [in 1644] conquered the last ethnic Chinese empire, the Ming [and established Imperial China's last dynasty, the Qing]... The Manchus expanded the empire's borders northward to include all of Mongolia, and westward to Tibet and Xinjiang." [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 edit

  1. ^ "List of Chinese names of western scholars". home.uni-leipzig.de. 2017. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  2. ^ "Ian Johnson". The New York Review of Books.
  3. ^ "Ian Johnson - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com.
  4. ^ Ian Johnson (2001) Pulitzer Prize winning articles in the Wall Street Journal
  5. ^ "FSI | Shorenstein APARC - Ian Johnson, longtime foreign correspondent, to receive Shorenstein Journalism Award". aparc.fsi.stanford.edu.
  6. ^ "AAR Announces Winners of 2019 Best In-Depth Newswriting on Religion Contest | aarweb.org". www.aarweb.org.
  7. ^ Johnson, Ian (16 July 2020). "Kicked Out of China, and Other Real-Life Costs of a Geopolitical Meltdown". The New York Times.
  8. ^ "Ian Johnson".
  9. ^ "CHS History | Chamberlain High School Legacy Project | United States". Chamberlain Legacy. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  10. ^ "Deng's Heyday". ChinaFile. September 10, 2011.
  11. ^ "Wild Grass - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
  12. ^ Muslim Brotherhood in Europe 2007-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, February 9, 2006, Ian Johnson, Congressional Testimony - published with the AIFD
  13. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-01-13. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
  14. ^ "A Mosque in Munich - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
  15. ^ "Ian Johnson on A Mosque in Munich: narrative as "the sugar around the medicine"". Nieman Foundation.
  16. ^ Johnson, Ian (March 25, 2019). "This Chinese Christian Was Charged With Trying to Subvert the State". The New York Times.
  17. ^ Johnson, Ian (September 29, 2012). "Aiming for Top, Xi Forged Ties Early in China". The New York Times.
  18. ^ "Books of the Year 2017". The Economist. December 9, 2017.
  19. ^ "30 best books of 2017". Christian Science Monitor. December 4, 2017.
  20. ^ "Books - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
  21. ^ Hawkins, Amy (2023-11-01). "Sparks by Ian Johnson review – China's underground historians". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  22. ^ "Nieman Watchdog > About Us > Contributor > Ian Johnson". www.niemanwatchdog.org. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  23. ^ Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. "Ian Johnson". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Universität Leipzig: laufende Promotionen". www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  25. ^ Johnson, Ian (2023-08-22). "Xi's Age of Stagnation". Foreign Affairs. No. September/October 2023. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-08-29.

External links edit

  • 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.

December 14, 2023
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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 Ian JohnsonBorn27 July 1962Montreal Quebec CanadaEducationUniversity of Florida Free University of Berlin Harvard University OccupationJournalistWebsitewww wbr ian johnson wbr comJohnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage in the Wall Street Journal of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China 4 His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists In 2017 he won Stanford University s Shorenstein Prize for his body of work covering Asia 5 In 2019 he won the American Academy of Religion s best in depth newswriting award 6 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 Contents 1 Life and work 2 Bibliography 2 1 Books 2 2 Essays and reporting 3 References 4 External linksLife and work editBorn in Montreal Quebec Canada Johnson is a naturalized United States citizen who lived in Beijing China for more than twenty years He attended Chamberlain High School in Tampa Florida 9 He first visited China as a student in 1984 10 and later studied Chinese in Taiwan From 1994 to 1997 he worked in Beijing for The Baltimore Sun and from 1997 to 2001 for The Wall Street Journal After working in Berlin Germany for nearly eight years he returned to China in 2009 citation needed 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 congressional testimony on the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe He described the Brotherhood as an umbrella group that regularly lobbies major international institutions like the EU and the Vatican and controls some of the most dynamic politically active Muslim groups in key European countries such as Britain France and Germany He said the group has schools to train imams has funded a mechanism in the guise of a UK registered charity and has a fatwa council to enforce ideological conformity 12 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 Early Rain Reformed Church in Chengdu and its pastor Wang Yi pastor who was arrested in 2018 for incitement to subvert state power 16 It also included one of the last in depth interviews with the popular Chinese spiritual leader Nan Huai Chin as well as research on Xi Jinping s support for traditional religions especially Buddhism when he was head of Zhengding County in the 1980s 17 The Souls of China was voted one of the best books of the year by The Economist and The Christian Science Monitor 18 19 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 editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items April 2016 Books edit 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 edit 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 The New York Review of Books vol LXVI no 14 26 September 2019 pp 14 16 18 The Manchus had in 1644 conquered the last ethnic Chinese empire the Ming and established Imperial China s last dynasty the Qing The Manchus expanded the empire s borders northward to include all of Mongolia and westward to Tibet and Xinjiang 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 edit 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 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 Muslim Brotherhood in Europe Archived 2007 07 03 at the Wayback Machine February 9 2006 Ian Johnson Congressional Testimony published with the 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 Hawkins Amy 2023 11 01 Sparks by Ian Johnson review China s underground historians The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 2023 11 06 Nieman Watchdog gt About Us gt Contributor gt 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 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Universitat Leipzig laufende Promotionen www gkr uni leipzig de in German Retrieved 2023 08 11 Johnson Ian 2023 08 22 Xi s Age of Stagnation Foreign Affairs No September October 2023 ISSN 0015 7120 Retrieved 2023 08 29 External links editIan Johnson 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning articles in the Wall Street Journal Ian Johnson website Nieman Watchdog gt About Us gt Contributor gt 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 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ian Johnson writer amp oldid 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