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'''Ian Johnson''' (born July 27, 1962) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and researcher whose work straddles "the borderland between history and journalism."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-14 |title=A Report From the Borderland Between History and Journalism |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-report-from-the-borderland-between-history-and-journalism/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |language=en}}</ref> He is the author of three books and has contributed numerous articles to the ''[[The New York Review of Books]],''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ian-johnson/|title=Ian Johnson|website=The New York Review of Books}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/ian-johnson|title=Ian Johnson - The New York Times|website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref> and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities public scholars fellowship, and currently researches and writes about China for the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].
'''Ian Johnson''' (born July 27, 1962) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and researcher whose work straddles "the borderland between history and journalism."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-14 |title=A Report From the Borderland Between History and Journalism |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-report-from-the-borderland-between-history-and-journalism/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |language=en}}</ref> He is the author of three books and has contributed numerous articles to the ''[[The New York Review of Books]],''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ian-johnson/|title=Ian Johnson|website=The New York Review of Books}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/ian-johnson|title=Ian Johnson - The New York Times|website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref> and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities public scholars fellowship, and currently researches and writes about China for the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].


==Life and work==
==Early Life ==
Born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada, Johnson is a [[naturalized]] United States citizen who lived in [[Beijing]], China, for more than twenty years. He attended [[George D. Chamberlain High School|Chamberlain High School]] in Tampa, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CHS History {{!}} Chamberlain High School Legacy Project {{!}} United States |url=https://www.chamberlainlegacy.com/history |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Chamberlain Legacy |language=en}}</ref> He first visited China as a student in 1984<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinafile.com/dengs-heyday|title=Deng's Heyday|date=September 10, 2011|website=ChinaFile}}</ref> and later studied Chinese in Taiwan. From 1994 to 1997 he worked in Beijing for ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' and from 1997 to 2001 for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. After working in Berlin, Germany, for nearly eight years he returned to China in 2009.
Born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada, Johnson moved to Florida at fifteen, where he attended [[George D. Chamberlain High School|Chamberlain High School]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=CHS History {{!}} Chamberlain High School Legacy Project {{!}} United States |url=https://www.chamberlainlegacy.com/history |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Chamberlain Legacy |language=en}}</ref> He studied Chinese in Beijing from1 984-1985 <ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-10 |title=Deng's Heyday |url=https://www.chinafile.com/dengs-heyday |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=ChinaFile |language=en}}</ref> and later studied in [[National Taiwan Normal University]] from 1986 to 1988.


Johnson worked as a full-time journalist at ''[[The Independent Florida Alligator]]'', a student-run newspaper at the University of Florida, serving as reporter and later editor in chief. From 1985 to 1986 he was a reporter for ''[[Orlando Sentinel|The Orlando Sentinel]]'' in its DeLand bureau.
In 2004, Johnson published ''Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China'' (Pantheon) on grassroots efforts to form [[civil society]]. It was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ian-johnson.com/books/wild-grass|title=Wild Grass - Ian Johnson|website=www.ian-johnson.com}}</ref>


== Career ==
In 2010, Johnson published ''A Mosque in Munich'', a book about the rise of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ian-johnson.com/books/a-mosque-in-munich|title=A Mosque in Munich - Ian Johnson|website=www.ian-johnson.com}}</ref> He conducted research on the book while on a Nieman fellowship at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/ian-johnson-on-a-mosque-in-munich-narrative-as-the-sugar-around-the-medicine/|title=Ian Johnson on A Mosque in Munich: narrative as "the sugar around the medicine"|website=Nieman Foundation}}</ref>
In 1988, Johnson moved to West Berlin to study at the [[Free University of Berlin|Freie University of Berlin]]. While earning a Master's degree in ''Sinologie'' (Chinese Studies), he also freelanced. He covered for the fall of the Berlin Wall <ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ian |date=2014-11-05 |title=HOW LITTLE WE KNEW: BERLIN WALL AT 25 |url=https://ian-johnson.com/how-little-we-knew-berlin-wall-at-25/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Ian Johnson |language=en-US}}</ref> for ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'', ''[[St. Petersburg Times|The St. Petersburg Times]]'', and ''[[Toronto Star|The Toronto Star]]''.


He joined ''[[The Baltimore Sun|The Sun]]'' full-time in 1992 and moved to New York as a business writer. From 1994 to 1996 he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' and for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'''s Beijing bureau from 1997 to 2001, covering macroeconomics, China's WTO accession, and social issues such as the Falun Gong spiritual movement. He also volunteered at a U.S. registered charity, the [[Taoist Restoration Society]], <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Taoist Restoration Society, Inc. |url=https://greatnonprofits.org/org/the-taoist-restoration-society-inc |access-date=December 19, 2022 |website=Great Nonprofits}}</ref> where he helped the group rebuild destroyed temples. His experiences with civil society and religion resulted in the book ''Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China'' in 2004. It was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ian-johnson.com/books/wild-grass|title=Wild Grass - Ian Johnson|website=www.ian-johnson.com}}</ref>
In 2017, he published ''The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao'' about China's search for meaning and values. It included a 100-page profile of Early Rain Reformed Church in [[Chengdu]] and its pastor [[Wang Yi (pastor)]] who was arrested in 2018 for [[incitement to subvert state power]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/world/asia/pastor-wang-yi-detention.html|title=This Chinese Christian Was Charged With Trying to Subvert the State|first=Ian|last=Johnson|date=March 25, 2019|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> It also included one of the last in-depth interviews with the popular Chinese spiritual leader [[Nan Huai-Chin]] as well as research on [[Xi Jinping]]'s support for traditional religions, especially [[Buddhism]], when he was head of [[Zhengding County]] in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/world/asia/aiming-for-top-xi-jinping-forged-ties-early-in-china.html|title=Aiming for Top, Xi Forged Ties Early in China|first=Ian|last=Johnson|date=September 29, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> ''The Souls of China'' was voted one of the best books of the year by ''The Economist'' and ''The Christian Science Monitor''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2017/12/09/books-of-the-year-2017|title=Books of the Year 2017|date=December 9, 2017|newspaper=The Economist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2017/1204/30-best-books-of-2017|title=30 best books of 2017|date=December 4, 2017|journal=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref>


From 2001 to 2006, he served as ''The Wall Street Journal''’s Germany bureau chief, managing reporters covering EU fiscal policy and European macroeconomics and German politics. He also wrote about social issues such as Islamist terrorism. In 2010, Johnson published ''A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood'', a book drawn from interviews and archives <ref>{{Cite book |last=27- |first=Johnson, Ian, 1962 July |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/751800385 |title=A mosque in Munich : Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim brotherhood in the West |date=2011 |publisher=Mariner |isbn=978-0-547-42317-3 |oclc=751800385}}</ref> about the rise of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ian-johnson.com/books/a-mosque-in-munich|title=A Mosque in Munich - Ian Johnson|website=www.ian-johnson.com}}</ref> He conducted research on the book while on a Nieman fellowship at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/stories/ian-johnson-on-a-mosque-in-munich-narrative-as-the-sugar-around-the-medicine/|title=Ian Johnson on A Mosque in Munich: narrative as "the sugar around the medicine"|website=Nieman Foundation}}</ref>
He has published chapters in three other books: ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China,'' ''Chinese Characters'', and ''My First Trip to China''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ian-johnson.com/books|title=Books - Ian Johnson|website=www.ian-johnson.com}}</ref>


Johnson moved back to Beijing in 2009 for [[The Wall Street Journal|''The Wall Street Journal'']]. In 2010, he left the ''Journal'' to work as a free-lancer. He was accredited as a correspondent for ''[[The New York Times]]'' between 2010 and 2020, writing about religion, urbanization, and other social trends. He also wrote more than 30 essays on China and ran a ten-year project interviewing Chinese public intellectuals for ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''.
He attended the [[University of Florida]], where he studied Asian Studies and Journalism [http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributors&bioid=191 Nieman Watchdog > About Us > Contributor > Ian Johnson]. He obtained his master's degree in Sinology from the [[Free University of Berlin]].


In 2017, he published ''The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao''. It included a 100-page profile of Early Rain Reformed Church in [[Chengdu]] and its pastor [[Wang Yi (pastor)]] who was arrested in 2018 for [[incitement to subvert state power]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Ian |date=March 25, 2019 |title=This Chinese Christian Was Charged With Trying to Subvert the State |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/world/asia/pastor-wang-yi-detention.html}}</ref> It also included one of the last in-depth interviews with the popular Chinese spiritual leader [[Nan Huai-Chin]] as well as research on [[Xi Jinping]]'s support for traditional religions, especially [[Buddhism]], when he was head of [[Zhengding County]] in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Ian |date=September 29, 2012 |title=Aiming for Top, Xi Forged Ties Early in China |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/world/asia/aiming-for-top-xi-jinping-forged-ties-early-in-china.html}}</ref> ''The Souls of China'' was voted one of the best books of the year by ''The Economist'' and ''The Christian Science Monitor''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 9, 2017 |title=Books of the Year 2017 |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2017/12/09/books-of-the-year-2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=December 4, 2017 |title=30 best books of 2017 |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2017/1204/30-best-books-of-2017 |journal=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref>
On February 9, 2006, Johnson delivered [[Congress of the United States|congressional]] testimony on the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] in Europe. He described the Brotherhood as "an umbrella group that regularly lobbies major international institutions like the EU and the Vatican" and "controls some of the most dynamic, politically active Muslim groups in key European countries, such as Britain, France and Germany." He said the group has schools "to train [[imam]]s," has funded a "mechanism in the guise of a UK-registered charity," and has a [[European Council for Fatwa and Research|fatwa council]] to enforce ideological conformity.<ref name="aifdemocracy">[http://www.aifdemocracy.org/policy-issues.php?id=1727 Muslim Brotherhood in Europe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703135837/http://www.aifdemocracy.org/policy-issues.php?id=1727 |date=2007-07-03 }}, February 9, 2006, Ian Johnson, Congressional Testimony - published with the [[American-Islamic Forum for Democracy|AIFD]]</ref>


In 2020, he was expelled along with twelve other reporters accredited to U.S. news organizations as part of worsening U.S.-China relations.
Johnson left the ''Wall Street Journal'' in 2010 to pursue magazine and book writing on cultural and social affairs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ian-johnson.com/bio.html |title=Bio |access-date=2013-04-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113004738/http://www.ian-johnson.com/bio.html |archive-date=2013-01-13 }}</ref>


== Academic Work and Research ==
==Bibliography==
While living in China, Johnson served from 2012 to 2018 as an advising editor to ''[[The Journal of Asian Studies]],'' where he helped select and edit academic writing that would reach a broader audience. From 2011 to 2019 he taught undergraduate courses accredited through [[Loyola University Chicago]] on Chinese religion at The China Center for China Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ian Johnson 张彦 |url=https://thebeijingcenter.org/people/ian-johnson/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=The Beijing Center 北京中国学中心 |language=en-US}}</ref> Since 2019, he has been a PhD candidate at [[Leipzig University]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Universität Leipzig: laufende Promotionen |url=https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/ostasiatisches-institut/sinologie/forschung/laufende-promotionen |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de |language=de}}</ref> where he is writing a thesis on religious associations.
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After being expelled from China, Johnson moved with his family to Singapore for the 2020-2021 academic year because his wife was an artist in residence at the [[NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore|NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-18 |title=Sim Chi Yin |url=https://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residency/sim-chi-yin/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore |language=en-US}}</ref> while he was a visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civil Society or Nostalgic Escapism? The Role of Religious Groups in Today’s China by Mr Ian Johnson |url=https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20201215-ian-johnson/ |access-date=December 19, 2022 |website=National University of Singapore}}</ref>

After briefly moving back to Berlin, he moved to New York in 2021 to work at the Studies Department at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] as the Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ian Johnson |url=https://www.cfr.org/expert/ian-johnson |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref> His current project is The Battle for History in Xi Jinping’s China.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Battle for History in Xi Jinping's China |url=https://www.cfr.org/project/battle-history-xi-jinpings-china |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards ==
Johnson won the 2001 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his coverage of China,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ian Johnson of The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ian-johnson |access-date=December 19, 2022 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> two awards from the [[Overseas Press Club]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards Recipients |url=https://opcofamerica.org/opc-awards-contest-rules/archive-award/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=OPC |language=en-US}}</ref> an award from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]], <ref>{{Cite web |title=Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists |url=https://www.spj.org/sdxa2000.asp |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.spj.org}}</ref> and Stanford University’s Shorenstein Journalism Award in 2016 <ref>{{Cite web |last=University |first=© Stanford |last2=Stanford |last3=California 94305 |title=Ian Johnson, longtime foreign correspondent, to receive Shorenstein |url=https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ian-johnson-longtime-foreign-correspondent-receive-shorenstein-journalism-award |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=aparc.fsi.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref> for his body of work covering Asia. In 2019 he won the [[American Academy of Religion]]’s “best in-depth newswriting" award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Journalism Award Winners and Sample Articles |url=https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/Who-We-Are-/Award-Programs-/Awards/Journalism-Award-Winners-and-Sample-Articles.aspx |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=aarweb.org |language=en}}</ref>

His work has been supported by several fellowships and grants, including a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University in 2006-2007, a fellowship from the Open Society Foundation in 2011, several grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporter, the Alician Patterson Foundation in 2013, and the 2019 Robert B. Silvers Prize for work in progress. In 2020-2021 [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] awarded him a Public Scholars fellowship for a new book on China’s unofficial history.


Bibliography{{Incomplete list|date=April 2016}}


===Books===
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Ian Johnson
Born27 July 1962
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationUniversity of Florida, Free University of Berlin, Harvard University,
Occupation(s)Pulitzer Prize winning Reporter
and Journalist
Websitewww.ian-johnson.com

Ian Johnson (born July 27, 1962) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and researcher whose work straddles "the borderland between history and journalism."[1] He is the author of three books and has contributed numerous articles to the The New York Review of Books,[2] The New York Times,[3] and The Wall Street Journal. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities public scholars fellowship, and currently researches and writes about China for the Council on Foreign Relations.

Early Life

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Johnson moved to Florida at fifteen, where he attended Chamberlain High School.[4] He studied Chinese in Beijing from1 984-1985 [5] and later studied in National Taiwan Normal University from 1986 to 1988.

Johnson worked as a full-time journalist at The Independent Florida Alligator, a student-run newspaper at the University of Florida, serving as reporter and later editor in chief. From 1985 to 1986 he was a reporter for The Orlando Sentinel in its DeLand bureau.

Career

In 1988, Johnson moved to West Berlin to study at the Freie University of Berlin. While earning a Master's degree in Sinologie (Chinese Studies), he also freelanced. He covered for the fall of the Berlin Wall [6] for The Baltimore Sun, The St. Petersburg Times, and The Toronto Star.

He joined The Sun full-time in 1992 and moved to New York as a business writer. From 1994 to 1996 he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun and for The Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau from 1997 to 2001, covering macroeconomics, China's WTO accession, and social issues such as the Falun Gong spiritual movement. He also volunteered at a U.S. registered charity, the Taoist Restoration Society, [7] where he helped the group rebuild destroyed temples. His experiences with civil society and religion resulted in the book Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China in 2004. It was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages.[8]

From 2001 to 2006, he served as The Wall Street Journal’s Germany bureau chief, managing reporters covering EU fiscal policy and European macroeconomics and German politics. He also wrote about social issues such as Islamist terrorism. In 2010, Johnson published A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood, a book drawn from interviews and archives [9] about the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.[10] He conducted research on the book while on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University.[11]

Johnson moved back to Beijing in 2009 for The Wall Street Journal. In 2010, he left the Journal to work as a free-lancer. He was accredited as a correspondent for The New York Times between 2010 and 2020, writing about religion, urbanization, and other social trends. He also wrote more than 30 essays on China and ran a ten-year project interviewing Chinese public intellectuals for The New York Review of Books.

In 2017, he published The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. It included a 100-page profile of Early Rain Reformed Church in Chengdu and its pastor Wang Yi (pastor) who was arrested in 2018 for incitement to subvert state power.[12] It also included one of the last in-depth interviews with the popular Chinese spiritual leader Nan Huai-Chin as well as research on Xi Jinping's support for traditional religions, especially Buddhism, when he was head of Zhengding County in the 1980s.[13] The Souls of China was voted one of the best books of the year by The Economist and The Christian Science Monitor.[14][15]

In 2020, he was expelled along with twelve other reporters accredited to U.S. news organizations as part of worsening U.S.-China relations.

Academic Work and Research

While living in China, Johnson served from 2012 to 2018 as an advising editor to The Journal of Asian Studies, where he helped select and edit academic writing that would reach a broader audience. From 2011 to 2019 he taught undergraduate courses accredited through Loyola University Chicago on Chinese religion at The China Center for China Studies.[16] Since 2019, he has been a PhD candidate at Leipzig University,[17] where he is writing a thesis on religious associations.

After being expelled from China, Johnson moved with his family to Singapore for the 2020-2021 academic year because his wife was an artist in residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Arts,[18] while he was a visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.[19]

After briefly moving back to Berlin, he moved to New York in 2021 to work at the Studies Department at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China Studies.[20] His current project is The Battle for History in Xi Jinping’s China.[21]

Awards

Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of China,[22] two awards from the Overseas Press Club,[23] an award from the Society of Professional Journalists, [24] and Stanford University’s Shorenstein Journalism Award in 2016 [25] for his body of work covering Asia. In 2019 he won the American Academy of Religion’s “best in-depth newswriting" award.[26]

His work has been supported by several fellowships and grants, including a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University in 2006-2007, a fellowship from the Open Society Foundation in 2011, several grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporter, the Alician Patterson Foundation in 2013, and the 2019 Robert B. Silvers Prize for work in progress. In 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities awarded him a Public Scholars fellowship for a new book on China’s unofficial history.


Bibliography

Books

  • Johnson, Ian (2004). Wild grass : three stories of change in modern China. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • — (2010). A mosque in Munich : Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • — (2017). The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9781101870051.

Essays and reporting

References

  1. ^ "A Report From the Borderland Between History and Journalism". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  2. ^ "Ian Johnson". The New York Review of Books.
  3. ^ "Ian Johnson - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com.
  4. ^ "CHS History | Chamberlain High School Legacy Project | United States". Chamberlain Legacy. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  5. ^ "Deng's Heyday". ChinaFile. 2011-09-10. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  6. ^ Johnson, Ian (2014-11-05). "HOW LITTLE WE KNEW: BERLIN WALL AT 25". Ian Johnson. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  7. ^ "The Taoist Restoration Society, Inc". Great Nonprofits. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  8. ^ "Wild Grass - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
  9. ^ 27-, Johnson, Ian, 1962 July (2011). A mosque in Munich : Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim brotherhood in the West. Mariner. ISBN 978-0-547-42317-3. OCLC 751800385. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "A Mosque in Munich - Ian Johnson". www.ian-johnson.com.
  11. ^ "Ian Johnson on A Mosque in Munich: narrative as "the sugar around the medicine"". Nieman Foundation.
  12. ^ Johnson, Ian (March 25, 2019). "This Chinese Christian Was Charged With Trying to Subvert the State". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Johnson, Ian (September 29, 2012). "Aiming for Top, Xi Forged Ties Early in China". The New York Times.
  14. ^ "Books of the Year 2017". The Economist. December 9, 2017.
  15. ^ "30 best books of 2017". Christian Science Monitor. December 4, 2017.
  16. ^ "Ian Johnson 张彦". The Beijing Center 北京中国学中心. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  17. ^ "Universität Leipzig: laufende Promotionen". www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  18. ^ "Sim Chi Yin". NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  19. ^ "Civil Society or Nostalgic Escapism? The Role of Religious Groups in Today's China by Mr Ian Johnson". National University of Singapore. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  20. ^ "Ian Johnson". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  21. ^ "The Battle for History in Xi Jinping's China". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  22. ^ "Ian Johnson of The Wall Street Journal". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  23. ^ "Awards Recipients". OPC. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  24. ^ "Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists". www.spj.org. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  25. ^ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Ian Johnson, longtime foreign correspondent, to receive Shorenstein". aparc.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ^ "Journalism Award Winners and Sample Articles". aarweb.org. Retrieved 2022-12-19.