Ian Johnson

From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).

The Return of Religion After Mao

The Souls of China

A sweeping portrait from the 1940s to the 2020s of one of humanity’s great battles of memory against forgetting, including some of China’s best-known public intellectuals.

China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

Sparks

"The tectonic plates that form China have left it a checkerboard of mountains and rivers and memories. From the south, the Indian plate pushes up into the Eurasian, creating the Himalayas and the vast Tibetan plateau that almost cuts the country off from the rest of the continent. Rippling outward are smaller mountain ranges that ebb and flow toward the Pacific Ocean, like deep swells heaving through the land"--

Three Portraits of Change in Modern China

Wild Grass

In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold story of a group of ex-Soviet Muslims who had defected to Germany during World War II. There, they had been fashioned into a well-oiled anti-Soviet propaganda machine. As that war ended and the Cold War began, West German and U.S. intelligence agents vied for control of this influential group, and at the center of the covert tug of war was a quiet mosque in Munich—radical Islam’s first beachhead in the West. Culled from an array of sources, including newly declassified documents, A Mosque in Munich interweaves the stories of several key players: a Nazi scholar turned postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naïve CIA men eager to fight communism with a new weapon, Islam. A rare ground-level look at Cold War spying and a revelatory account of the West’s first, disastrous encounter with radical Islam, A Mosque in Munich is as captivating as it is crucial to our understanding the mistakes we are still making in our relationship with Islamists today

Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

A Mosque in Munich

'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping Chen, author of Land of Big Numbers 'A powerful reminder of the ways in which China's future depends on who controls the past' Peter Hessler A documentary filmmaker who spent years uncovering a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who suffered through Covid; a magazine publisher who dodges the secret police: these are some of the people who make up Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future, a vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground - its monopoly on history. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism's triumph. The Chinese Communist Party builds on these ideas to whitewash its misdeeds and justify its rule. But in recent years, critical thinkers from across the land have begun to challenge this state-led disremembering. Using digital technologies to bypass China's legendary surveillance state, their samizdat journals, guerilla media posts, and underground films document a pattern of disasters: from past famines and purges to the ethnic clashes and virus outbreaks of the present. Based on years of research in Xi Jinping's China, Sparks challenges stereotypes of a China where the state has quashed all free thought, revealing instead a country engaged in one of humanity's great struggles of memory against forgetting - a battle that will shape the China that emerges in the mid-21st century.

A Structured Guide

Understanding MapInfo

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Methods in the mountains

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future. The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, churches, and mosques—as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty—over what it means to be Chinese and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson first visited China in 1984; in the 1990s he helped run a charity to rebuild Daoist temples, and in 2001 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the suppression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. While researching this book, he lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. Along the way, he learned esoteric meditation techniques, visited a nonagenarian Confucian sage, and befriended government propagandists as they fashioned a remarkable embrace of traditional values. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle—a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world’s newest superpower.

Classic Hints and Tips For MotorcyclistsBy Ian Johnson.A selection of practical hints and tips based on material that first appeared in Motor Cycle magazine, from 1908 until the early sixties. Contains nearly 60 different ideas for maintenance, repair andimprovement. The tips included have been chosen for their continuing relevance to owners of vintage motorcycles. Topics covered are: the machine, the road, the workshop, and the golden age. Hdbd., 8 1/4"x 10 1/2", 192 pgs., 400 b&w ill.

Classic Hints and Tips for Motorcyclists

Ken Dowell

A new edition which brings the reader right up to date with the advances in the field since the publication of the previous edition ten years ago. In that time MCQs have continued to play a major role in the testing of factual knowledge, and with the extensive changes in undergraduate examinations MCQs have remained the most effective and objective means of assessing straightforward factual knowledge.

MCQs in Undergraduate Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Axle is a kid who begged for a tablet. He soon finds out that it comes with responsibility.

Axle Series

Axle Series. Axle and His Tablet

Ian Johnson, the organizer of Bay Area d3 (the largest d3 meetup in the world), starts with SVG and then dives deep into d3 including DOM manipulation, categorical and quantitative scales, axis, brushes, color schemes, events and histograms. Make sense of your data by exploring it visually with D3.js!

Interactive Data Visualization with D3.js

The book is an invitation from heaven to partake of the greatest meal ever offered. My aim in writing this is to provide a daily reflection on the body and blood of Jesus. This reflection is just the beginning of your daily journey. Use the daily reflections to transport you outside of time and space and into the eternal realm. In that place seated with Christ, partake of the tree of life Himself. In time you will transform from one who has previously partaken of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil, into your true identity as a Son of Heaven, partaking of the tree of life. I love talking about the wonderful, supernatural meal that most in the Church call "Communion" Even as I wrote this little book my heart soared with excitement and thankfulness as I contemplate the meal that transports me back into the heart of the father. I try to eat this meal in the natural on a daily basis, and my partaking in the spirit is a moment by moment reflection of his provision in my life. After nearly forty years of walking in the faith, I have never tired of this meal, it is more desirable to me today than when I first began, because the more I eat it the more my DNA is changed and I appear in His image.

Daily Reflections and Meditations on the Body and Blood of Christ

His Total Provision

Axle, a smart and energetic 8 year old kid. He begged his dad for months for a tablet. Little did he know that the tablet came with rules and responsibility. Lets see what happens.

Axle and His Tablet

Ardis Butterfield

Andrew Kraebel

Reasserts the central importance of medieval scholastic literary theory through a collection of newly-commissioned expert essays.

Interpretation, Invention, Imagination

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

Who was Thomas Watson? Famous in his day, he was the epitome of Renaissance man: classical scholar, linguist, poet, playwright, musician, scientist, thinker, traveller, cosmologist, a man of intense curiosity. "A very learned man that could tell strange things". His book of 100 love poems still intrigues, and musicologists admire his deft translations of Italian madrigals. He was a sociable companion, too, a loyal friend of poets and playwrights, and a wit--"witty Tom Watson". Watson mixed with the highest in the land, including the Earl of Oxford's literary clique and the rival house of Philip and Mary Sidney. He was a close friend of the atheist Christopher Marlowe, and colleague of the Roman Catholic composer William Byrd. Yet, Watson also mingled with the basest in society. He was a government agent, an acquaintance of the spy master "Mr Secretary" Walsingham and a loved companion of his nephew. Scrapes and scandals dogged his life and even his death in 1592 aged 37 is blemished by a question mark. History has neglected Tom Watson. By examining his works and the culture in which he mixed, Ian Johnson attempts to get a measure of the man.

The World of Thomas Watson

Renaissance Man

Lauston Stephens

This book starts by establishing that all believers in Christ are already, in fact, one with each other in Christ. This leaves us with the challenge, not of creating unity where it does not exist, but of living consistently with the oneness that already exists. The first section explains why living consistently with our oneness is important, including God’s commands and expectations, the benefits of living in oneness and the hazards of living contrary to the truth. Part two explains what oneness is and is not, including the concepts that oneness is a harmony of diverse believers each doing their own part, not unison, unanimity or strict conformity to the same mold. The third section deals with practical barriers to living in oneness—selfishness, misunderstandings, heresy, and incorrect understanding of the origin of the organizational divisions in the universal Church—and suggests how to overcome them.

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