Songzhuang 193, 230, 275
South Korea 158, 220, 229
Soviet Union 2, 39–40, 45, 72, 153, 157, 260, 272, 273
1989 summit with China 108–10
Stars, the (art group) see Chinese contemporary art/artists
student demonstrations 1986-7 101–4
Sydney 146–7, 169, 195, 275, 276, 280, 289
Taiwan 70, 73–4, 153, 158, 219, 228
Tajikistan 81
Taklimakan Desert 80, 196, 238, 261
Talking Heads 4
Tangshan earthquake 19, 47, 219
Tian Shan mountains 259, 264
Tiananmen Gate 5, 266
Tiananmen Mothers 253–4, 297
Tiananmen Square 8, 10–11, 24, 31, 38, 42, 48, 84, 102–3, 109, 253, 266
1976 demonstrations see Qing Ming 1976 demonstrations
Tiananmen Square 1989
demonstrations 3, 8, 9, 12, 16, 19, 33, 62 71, 94, 112, 116–51, 219, 297
arrests 159–60, 169
death toll 144–6
executions 160
Four Gentlemen 135–6
goddess of democracy statue 132–3, 144, 148
historical amnesia 219, 250–1, 254–5, 297
hunger strike 124–5, 127–8, 135–6
martial law 110, 124, 127–9, 130–1, 135, 147
military casualties see People’s Liberation Army
‘official verdict’ 251, 274
People’s Daily editorial 120–3, 127–8, 134, 147
petition by students 117–20, 127
25th anniversary 275–6
Tianjin 48, 293–4
Tibet 13, 71, 84–5, 167–8, 212, 219, 256, 257, 261, 266, 287–8
riots in 2008 224–5
Time magazine 108
Times on Sunday 104
Today magazine 11, 29–33, 35, 38, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 57, 58, 60, 67, 83
Tome, Fujiko 84
Treaty of Versailles 102
Tsinghua University 102, 119
Turfan 268
Turkic people 81, 257, 260
Uighur Online 269–70
Uighur people 81, 257–9, 262, 263–4, 266–71
United States of America 42, 43, 112, 160, 253
diplomatic relations between China and 44–5
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 227
Urumqi 258, 259, 263–5, 267
Uzbekistan 81, 260
Venice Biennale 198, 287
Vietnam 45
Sino-Vietnamese War 45–6, 61, 63–4, 68, 74
Voice of America 134
Wang Guangyi 115, 162–3, 163, 166
Wang Keping 51, 54, 57, 58, 59, 83, 84, 166
Long Live the Emperor 54
Silence 54
Wang Lixiong 270
Wei Jingsheng 25–8, 43, 46, 49–50, 53, 58, 60–3, 67, 101, 110, 113, 142, 308
‘The Fifth Modernisation’ 25–7
trial 60–2
Wen Jiabao, Premier 222–3
Wenchuan County 221
Western culture 47–8, 92–3, 98, 100, 165
White Rabbit Gallery 289, 302
‘Heavy Artillery’ exhibition 289
World Economic Herald 98
World Trade Organization 220
Wu De 18
Wu Guanzhong 66
Wu Renhua 146
Wu Wenguang 255
Wu’er Kaixi 123, 127–8, 130, 160, 308
Wuhan 101
Xi Jinping, President 271–2, 292–3, 295–6, 309
Xi Zhongxun 271
Xiamen 113
Xian 19
Xiao Lu 115
Dialogue 115
Xiaogang 77–8
Xinjiang 47, 71, 80–2, 88, 91, 196–7, 217, 238, 240, 256, 257–71, 286
2009 riots 263–4
kigiz makers 286
terrorist attacks 267, 268
Xu Qinxian, Major General 138, 160
Xu Wenli 58, 59
Xu Zhiyong 273, 274
Yalu River 283
Yan Li 51
Yang Jisheng 255–6, 297
Tombstone 255–6
Yangtze River 72, 76, 87, 99, 170, 171, 241
Yarkand 262, 267
Yellow River 111
Yue Minjun 162
Yunnan province 63, 71, 215, 232, 267
Zhang Huan 193–4, 198, 309
To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond 194
12 m2 193
Zhang Xianling 254
Zhang Xiaogang 115, 163–6, 178, 199, 219, 232, 285–6, 309–10
‘Amnesia and Memory’ series 232
Bloodline: Big Family No. 3 164
‘Bloodline’ series 163–4, 232
Family Portrait 163
Forever Lasting Love 163, 165
‘The Records’ exhibition 232–3
Zhao Ziyang, General Secretary 20, 98, 105, 111, 118, 119, 122–4, 126–9, 135, 156, 157, 197, 253, 310
Zhejiang province 180
Zhongnanhai (‘New Forbidden City’) 25, 33, 72, 117–18, 135, 136
Zhou Enlai 16–17, 103, 110, 116, 136–7, 296, 310
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Madeleine O’Dea is a writer and journalist who has been covering the political, economic, and cultural life of China for the past three decades. She worked for five years with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra before entering journalism in 1986 as the Beijing correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. She covered China throughout the 1990s as a producer with ABC Television. In 2004 she moved to Beijing and took up a position as a presenter and editor with China Radio International and later served as the arts editor for the magazine, the Beijinger. In 2010 she became the founding editor-in-chief of ARTINFO China and the Asia correspondent for Art+Auction and Modern Painters magazines. She now lives in Sydney.