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Ian Johnson

    Ian Johnson è uno scrittore pluripremiato il cui lavoro si addentra nella società, nella religione e nella storia. Offre profonde intuizioni sulla società cinese e le sue trasformazioni. Johnson guida i lettori attraverso argomenti complessi con uno stile preciso, enfatizzando i contesti storici e culturali.

    Safari in Style Series: Islands in Style
    Wild Grass
    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"

      Sparks
      4,4
    • Faustian Bargain

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      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 Bargain
      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 2
    • Wild Grass

      China's Revolution from Below

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary Supplement In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves finding oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bereaved daughter, and a peasant legal clerk are the unlikely heroes of these stories, private citizens cast by unexpected circumstances into surprising roles.

      Wild Grass
    • 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 Style