SPARKS: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
by Ian Johnson
($65 hb, also ebook and audiobook)
"It ended badly. They were hunted, imprisoned and executed.
I an Johnson’s The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao, released in 2017, is often cited as one of the best books on modern China. Johnson found a yearning for spiritual belief in a China run by the Communist Party.
His new book, is just as good. Like it approaches modern China at an oblique angle, investigating what at first seems insubstantial
