of the last in-depth interviews with the popular Chinese spiritual leader Nan Huai-Chin as well as research on Xi Jinping's support for traditional religions, especially Buddhism, when he was head of Zhengding County in the 1980s. The Souls of China was voted one of the best books of the year by The Economist and The Christian Science Monitor. He has published chapters in three other books: The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, Chinese Characters, and My First Trip to China. He attended the University of Florida, where he studied Asian Studies and Journalism Nieman Watchdog > About Us > Contributor > Ian Johnson. He obtained his master's degree in Sinology from the Free University of Berlin. 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. Johnson left the Wall Street Journal in 2010 to pursue magazine and book writing on cultural and social affairs. Bibliography 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 Will the Chinese Be Supreme? Profile of Hengdian World Studios. Ian Johnson, "What Holds China Together?", The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 14 (26 September 2019), pp. 14, 16, 18. "The Manchus... had [in 1644] conquered the last ethnic Chinese empire, the Ming [and established Imperial China's last dynasty, the Qing]... The Manchus expanded the empire's borders northward to include all of Mongolia, and westward to Tibet and Xinjiang." [p. 16.] "China's rulers have no faith that anything but force can keep this sprawling country intact." [p. 18.] References External links Ian Johnson (2001) Pulitzer Prize winning articles in the Wall Street Journal Ian Johnson (website) Language Wars, from Montreal to Beijing . YouTube. Pulitzer Prize