'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves finding o...

Se qualcosa accomuna tutti i paesi è che la storia diventa sempre più terreno di scontro sul presente. In Cina l’interazione tra passato, presente e futuro è un’ossessione millenaria. Le dinastie imperiali riscrivevano il passato per giustificare il loro dominio e dimostrare l’indegnità dei predecessori. Il marxismo ha modernizzato facendo della storia un processo inarrestabile verso la vittoria del comunismo. Il Partito comunista cinese, forte di questo assunto, da decenni riscrive misfat...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**‘Johnson’s stories bring … this history chillingly alive’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping Chen, author of Land of Big Numbers**A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who suf...

'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj Mishra'A fascinating odyssey ... a nuanced group portrait of Chinese citizens striving for non-material answers in an era of frenetic materialism' Julia Lovell, Guardian'The reappearance and flourishing of religion is perhaps the most surprising aspect of the dramatic changes in China in ...

In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death in police custody. Representing the first cracks in the otherwise seamless faç...

Ein unerhörter Faktenthriller von der Entstehung und Ausbreitung des islamischen Fundamentalismus mit Hilfe Nazi-Deutschlands und der CIA.Als der Journalist und Pulitzer-Preisträger Ian Johnson 2003 eine Londoner Buchhandlung betritt, macht er eine sensationelle undunheimliche Entdeckung:Als wichtigste Moscheen werden Mekka, Jerusalem, Istanbul und eine Moschee in München genannt.Warum München? Welche Moschee? Das islamische Zentrum von München wurde seit dem Dritten R...

Brought to you by Penguin.In China today a nationwide movement emerges, defying crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism's triumph. The Chinese Communis...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, churches, and mosques—as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religi...

Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other sustainability crises—is being driven by local, people’s, women’s, and grassroots movements around th...

It began with the breaking of the bread and became a movement.During a global Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Australian entrepreneur Philip Ryall and his wife Jennie invited more than sixty church leaders from various Christian backgrounds and denominations into their home.Like yeast leavening a loaf of bread, out of that meal grew a deepening inspiration for the book Dear Unity: Overdue Love Letters to Heal a Divided Church, a collection of t...

A collection of horror stories set in shadowy caverns, crypts, and other undesirable hollows.Contents:Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson (Weird Tales, June-July 1939)The story of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway.The Creeper in the Crypt by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, July 1937)An unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham.The Secret in the Tom...

It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his ideological soul mate in Thatcher, and George W. Bush found his fellow believer, in religion and in war, in Tony Blair.In a series of shrewd and absorbing chara...