{"product_id":"the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-paperback-1","title":"The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the Best Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe Economist, The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChina is in the midst of one of the world's great spiritual awakenings: some 300 million Chinese currently practice a faith, while tens of millions more follow personal gurus, populist masters and New Age sages. This astonishing revival began in 1982 when the Communist Party pledged to allow what it thought would be a small-scale practice of religion under government supervision. But the faithful have expanded far beyond the Party's expectations: Today, China's cities and villages are filled with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Fueling this resurgence is a popular desire to rediscover a moral compass in a society driven by naked capitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For six years, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with three religious communities: the underground Early Rain Protestant congregation in Chengdu, the Ni family's Buddhist pilgrimage association in Beijing, and \u003ci\u003eyinyang\u003c\/i\u003e Daoist priests in rural Shanxi. Johnson distills these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle that reveals the hearts and minds of the Chinese people--a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world's newest superpower.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Johnson is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e; his work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic. \u003c\/i\u003eDuring more than twenty years of working in China he has won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the Shorenstein lifetime achievement award for covering Asia.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAn advising editor for the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, he also teaches university courses on religion and society at the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author of two other books that also focus on the intersection of politics and religion: \u003ci\u003eWild Grass: Three Stories of Change in China, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Beijing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.ian-johnson.com\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42595892428896,"sku":"9780804173391","price":35.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/a0Y5TlExS2cwRCs5U0JKREM2bWVQdz09.webp?v=1771599282","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-souls-of-china-the-return-of-religion-after-mao-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}