Life and work

Born in Montreal, Canada, Johnson is a naturalized United States citizen who lives in Berlin, Germany. He recently wrote a Wall Street Journal review of "Advocate for the Doomed," about James G. McDonald's efforts to warn the world about the Nazis in the early 1930s.

In 2001, Johnson published a book about the Islamic Center of Munich. He conducted research on the book while on a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. He attended the University of Florida.

In 2004, Johnson published Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (Pantheon), which was later released in paperback and has been translated into several languages.

On February 9, 2006, Johnson delivered 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 imams," has funded a "mechanism in the guise of a UK-registered charity," and has a fatwa council to enforce ideological conformity.

In 2009 Johnson was moving back to China. He left the Wall Street Journal in 2010 to pursue magazine and book writing on cultural and social affairs.

Bibliography

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Books

• Johnson, Ian (2004). Wild grass : three stories of change in modern China. New York: Pantheon Books.

Essays and reporting

• Ex-Colony Weihai Ponders What Might Have Been, Wall Street Journal, June 24, 1997
• Can't We All Just Get Along? Are European Muslims Islam's best hope?, Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2004
• In China, Grass-Roots Groups Stretch Limits on Activism, Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2008
• "Will the Chinese be supreme?", New York Review of Books, 04.04.2013
• Johnson, Ian (April 22, 2013). "Studio city : in a remote spot in China, the world's biggest movie lot is getting even bigger". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker 89 (10): 48-55. Profile of Hengdian World Studios.

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