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Ezra Klein recommended Ian Johnson's book on the resurgence of religion in modern China, describing it as a great read.
The second is Ian Johnson, The Souls of China, The Return of Religion After Mao. It's about what has occurred on the grounds, in the grassroots with the rise of various forms of Taoism, Buddhism, Prot...
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Episode: What Xi Jinping Wants
Ezra Klein recommended Ian Johnson's book on the resurgence of religion in modern China, describing it as a great read.
The second is Ian Johnson, The Souls of China, The Return of Religion After Mao. It's about what has occurred on the grounds, in the grassroots with the rise of various forms of Taoism, Buddhism, Protestant Christianity, and other forms of religious belief as a reaction to the uber-materialism of, let's call it, China's ideological orthodoxy. And that is a great read.