Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He has spent nearly twenty years in the Greater China region, as a student and a newspaper correspondent. He works out of Beijing, where he writes features and essays for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. He also teaches undergraduates at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies and advises a variety of academic journals and think tanks on China. He also worked in Germany twice, from 1988 to 1992, when he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification, and from 2001 to 2009 as The Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief and senior writer. Johnson has earned several prizes for journalism, including the 2001 Pulitzer for his coverage of China. The latest of his three books, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. We spoke about that book, which chronicles China’s religious revival and its implications for politics and society. Learn more about Ian Johnson here.