Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer based in Berlin. He spent more than twenty years in China, first as a student and then as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of two other books that also focus on the intersection of politics and religion- The Souls of China- The Return of Religion After Mao, and A Mosque in Munich- Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.
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 Supplement * A gripping tale. * Washington Post * A captivating and an important study of what is happening on the ground in China today. * The News Tribune *