The Souls of China

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Ian Johnson
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Penguin 2018-1-25 Paperback 9780141986081

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Ian Johnson is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New York Times; his work has also appeared in The New Yorker and National Geographic. During 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. An advising editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, 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: Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in China, and A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. He lives in Beijing.

China 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.

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 yinyang 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.

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##虽然作者想从几个典型老百姓家庭的角度来阐述全文的主题,但是更多内容还是适合英文世界的读者。中文读者看到很多内容并没有觉得惊奇。只是看到文末结尾处致谢人名单里一位前同事的名字,她一直混迹海外驻华记者圈,想来也是不足为奇。

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##开头结尾引的都是同一句尚书,而作者对宗教在中国文化里的必需性和政治性的理解其实也都在这句话里了,全书都非常像那一段,“人心惊疑,如居风涛,汹汹靡定,上自朝列,下达蒸黎,日夕放党聚谋,咸忧必有变故。” (确实是个好写手,很细腻也懂递进,说作者写陕西李家有点像刘震云也是夸奖,当然全书最煽情自然是那一句,she doesn't need to participate, she's got faith!)

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##对20-21世纪中国religion/state历史有一个很有意思、细致入微的记录,虽然有其bias以及忽略的细节。喜欢它的文笔和架构。

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