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Ian Johnson

    Ian Johnson is an award-winning writer whose work delves into society, religion, and history. He offers profound insights into Chinese society and its transformations. Johnson guides readers through complex topics with a precise style, emphasizing historical and cultural contexts.

    Safari in Style Series: Islands in Style
    The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. The Middle Ages. Volume 2
    A Mosque in Munich. Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West
    Faustian Bargain
    Sparks
    • A vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists haver overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground, its monopoly on history"

      Sparks2023
      4.4
    • Faustian Bargain

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Offers the full story of a fateful alliance between past and future mortal enemies--long preceding the well-known Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact--whose dimensions were kept secret from the outside world and yet which set the stage for World War Two and its outcome.

      Faustian Bargain2021
      4.4
    • This unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages. The essays cover all the main traditions in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and the major European vernaculars, as well as the humanist debates on literature and its uses.

      The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. The Middle Ages. Volume 22009
    • Safari in Style Series: Islands in Style

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      This title will combine the aspirational and inspirational elements of enticing travel experiences, wildlife, landscapes, architecture, decor and the individual ambience found at more than 30 prime island lodges, mostly in the Indian Ocean, but also in African lakes and rivers.

      Safari in Style Series: Islands in Style2007