Sheila K. Johnson is an anthropologist, gerontologist, and freelance writer. She’s the author of Idle Haven: Community-Building Among the Working-class Retired (University of California Press, 1971) and The Japanese Through American Eyes (Stanford University Press, 1988). She is currently working on a memoir about her long marriage to scholar and writer Chalmers Johnson.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Western Family’s China Saga
China Mission is an engrossing group biography and a valuable overview of a country’s turbulent transformations...
Oh, To Be Japanese!
MANY FOREIGNERS have fallen in love with Japan — its physical beauty, its culture, its people. Most of these foreigners have ...
