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"
Ian Johnson Boeken
Ian Johnson is een bekroond schrijver wiens werk zich verdiept in maatschappij, religie en geschiedenis. Hij biedt diepgaande inzichten in de Chinese samenleving en haar transformaties. Johnson leidt lezers door complexe onderwerpen met een precieze stijl, waarbij hij historische en culturele contexten benadrukt.






Faustian Bargain
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- 13 uur lezen
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.
Ian Johnson offers a little known story of how the CIA & a former Nazi intelligence agent gave radical Islam a foothold in Europe.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. The Middle Ages. Volume 2
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- 31 uur lezen
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.
Safari in Style Series: Islands in Style
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- 6 uur lezen
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.
Die vierte Moschee. Nazis, CIA und der islamische Fundamentalismus
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- 13 uur lezen
Der Journalist Ian Johnson entdeckt 2003 in einer Londoner Buchhandlung, dass das islamische Zentrum in München eine zentrale Rolle in der Geschichte spielte. Von den Nazis bis zu Geheimdiensten war es ein Schauplatz politischer Intrigen und Machtkämpfe. Diese Ereignisse beeinflussten letztlich die Geschehnisse rund um den 11. September 2001.