The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, by Ian Johnson, certainly has an insider perspective on the topic at hand. Johnson is fluent in Chinese, knows many people, and explores the issues generated by the practice of religion in China deftly and thoroughly.
Johnson shows how religion has become a greater part of life in China following Tienanmen Square. Many people have turned inward following the political crackdown of 1989, mainly in semi-legal, small Protestant churches.
The government, in turn, has attempted to promote some religion, especially Confucianism, to the replace now empty Socialist values of “Communist” China with a philosophy and religion of that is still ingrained in the Chinese psyche.
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