Ian Johnson is a senior fellow for Chinese studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He had a long journalism career in China, where he wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. In 2001, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Chinese government’s crackdown on Falun Gong. He is the author of The Souls of China (2017) and Wild Grass (2004), and this fall his latest highly acclaimed book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians