Ian Johnson

Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing, where he also teaches university classes. He has spent nearly twenty years in the greater China region, first as a student in Beijing (1984-1985), and then in Taipei (1986-1988). He later worked as a newspaper correspondent in China (1994-1996) with Baltimore’s The Sun, and with The Wall Street Journal (1997-2001), where he covered macro economics, China’s WTO accession and social issues.