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Soul of a Superpower - Ian Johnson & Richard Madsen
China 21
English - March 27, 2018 17:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsNews Education china us-china relations sino-us relations chinese politics economics society sociology business international relations asia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ian Johnson joins Richard Madsen to discusses how today’s Chinese Communist Party is striving for a national set of values, and how ordinary Chinese are seeking for deeper meaning in their lives, and the lessons for the rest of the world in this global populist moment.
Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter in China for over 20 years, for various publications, including The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and is author of a new book: The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao.
Dr. Richard Madsen is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UC San Diego. He is the author or co-author of 12 books, including the landmark village study “Chen Village under Mao and Deng” and Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan.” He is currently working on a book about happiness in China, which he describes as an exploration on “searching for a good life in China in an age of anxiety.”
This episode was recorded at UC San Diego
Host & Editor: Samuel Tsoi
Production Support: Mike Fausner
Music: Dave Liang/Shanghai Restoration Project
Photo credit: Ian Johnson
Video/Book info: http://ian-johnson.com