Ian Johnson Interview

In today’s episode, the podcast is honored to have Ian Johnson, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and commentator who has spent decades living in and writing about China. His most recent book is called Sparks. In it, he follows a handful of China’s underground historians who resist the increasingly heavy-handed state by writing and researching events that the Chinese Communist Party would rather be forgotten. 

If you want to buy Ian’s most recent book Sparks, get it here.

I would also highly recommend The Souls of China to anyone who is interested in religion in China today.

Wild Grass is a classic, a look at the lives of three individuals in a China that now feels like a different era. Get that here.

And finally, if you are interested in the works of different Chinese underground historians, Ian and others have collaborated to create the China Unofficial Archives here.