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Ian Johnson

Wild Grass

"Religious Protest and Persecution in China:
A Journalist's Experience in Reporting on the Falun Gong Movement"

Free Public Lecture by Ian Johnson

Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Jesse Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union South)

Ian Johnson is the Berlin Bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. In 2001, when he was the Journal’s Beijing correspondent, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Falun Gong. Autographed copies of Johnson's book, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (Pantheon Books 2004), will be for sale at the lecture. This event is presented by MU's Department of Religious Studies as a Rufus Monroe and Sophie Hougaard Paine Lecture in Religion. The event is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, the School of Journalism, the Asian Affairs Center, and the Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public.

For more information, contact the Department of Religious Studies at (573) 882-4769 or e-mail rsinfo@missouri.edu.

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