Juan Hsing (wife of Shih Chang-ju)
Ju’er Hutong, Beijing
Junior Scholastic (magazine)
Kadeer, Rebiya (Uighur political prisoner)
Kanat, Mehmeh Omer
Kangxi (emperor)
Keightley, David N. (scholar)
on Chinese culture
his book Sources of Shang History
on oracle bones and Chinese writing
Kennedy, George A. (scholar)
Kennedy, John F.
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) franchise in China
Kim Il Sung (Korean leader)
Korean War
interview with Chinese veteran of
orphans from
Kosovo, Yugoslavia
Kunio, Shima
Kunming, Yunnan province
Kuomintang government
civil war between communists and
Democratic Progressive Party in opposition to
massacre of Taiwanese natives by
origins
in Taiwan
labor conditions
in Shenzhen
Land King Tower, Shenzhen
landscape, Chinese
Anyang, Henan province
loess soil, and sandstorms
role of, in Chinese history
land-use rights
Lanzhou, Gansu province, bronze horses housed in
Latin language
law, Chinese
lawsuits in China
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), Lucy Chao’s translations of
Lee, T. D. (scholar)
Leong, Mark (photographer)
Liang Sicheng (architectural historian)
Li Bukong (actor)
lihai (terrible, fierce)
Li Hongzhi (founder of Falun Gong)
Lijiang (city)
Lin Biao (Chinese marshal)
Lin Cheng-chieh “Jacky Lin” (Taiwan politician), on Taiwan politics and democracy
Lincoln, Abraham (U.S. president)
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Lin Huiyin (architectural historian)
Li Peng (Chinese premier)
Li Peng (Dandong hotel manager)
Liu, Harrison (actor)
Liu Chengmin, migrant worker from Sichuan
Liu E (oracle bones collector and scholar)
Liu Jingmin (Beijing vice mayor)
Liu Lieli (economist)
Liu Shaoqi (former Communist Party boss)
Liu Xuan (athlete)
Liu Yuqing
Li Xueqin (archaeologist)
author’s interview with
criticism of Chen Mengjia written in 1957 by
regrets of
Li Yikai (wife of Wu Ningkun)
Luoyang archaeological site
Luoyang spade
Lu Xun (writer), advocacy for reform of Chinese writing system by
MacAloon, John (scholar)
MacArthur, Douglas (military leader)
Ma Chengyuan (curator, Shanghai Museum), Ming-era furniture belonging to Chen Mengjia and Lucy Chao, and
McCullough, Robert (IOC Committee)
McDonald’s franchise in China
Mahsum, Hasah
Mair, Victor (scholar)
on ancient Chinese writing system, and translations
on mummies of Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Ma Jian (writer)
Manchukuo Japanese puppet state
Manchuria
Manchurians (ethnic group)
Mao Zedong
Anti-Rightist campaign launched by (1957)
Cultural Revolution and [see also Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)]
death of
destruction of Beijing gates and walls by
economic policies of, and 1960s famine
Hundred Flowers campaign launched by (1957)
Jiang Wen on
Korean War and
on reforming Chinese writing system
marriage
May Fourth Movement of 1919
Ma, Yo-Yo (cellist)
media
author’s criticism of Western
censorship of Chinese
China Central Television (CCTV)
coverage of Falun Gong, by Chinese
coverage of 9/11 terrorist attacks
coverage of China-U.S. aircraft-collision incident
Phoenix TV, Hong Kong
Meier, Adam (former Fuling teacher)
Memorial to the Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing
Meng Jingshan (cab driver)
Mexican soap operas on Chinese television
Mexico City Olympic Games of 1968
Meyer, Mike (author’s friend)
Mezger, Brian (Polat’s attorney)
Miao Yong (novelist)
Microsoft Corporation
migrants, Chinese internal. See also migration
adjustment difficulties, homesickness, and loneliness of
illegal publications sold by
laborers as
prejudice against
teachers as
migration
from China, [see also Polat (Uighur émigré)]
to Special Economic Zone cities
to Xinjiang
Millennium Monument, Beijing
Milosevic, Slobodan
Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
Minghuang (emperor)
Ministry of Education, China, plan for study of English
Minmeng Party
movies. See films
movie set, Xinjiang province
mummies discovered in Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Muslim minorities in China. See also Uighurs (ethnic group)
Nakai, Kiichi (actor)
Nanjing, Jiangsu province
anti-American street protests in
Japanese atrocities in (1937)
Memorial to Nanjing Massacre in
Yongle’s stone tablet
National Geographic (magazine)
nationalism, Chinese
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) bombing. See bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1999)
New Yorker (magazine)
author’s article about émigré Polat
author’s article about former student Emily
New York Times (newspaper)
Ni Shichao (river boat pilot)
Nixon, Richard (U.S. president)
North Korea
George W. Bush on
Chinese relations with North Koreans
Korean War and
North Korea, author’s trip to border of
at Broken Bridge on Yalu River
encounter with thief and aftermath
North Koreans
in Beijing
as refugees
in Washington, D.C.
Number Ten Village, Double Dragon Township, Sichuan province
Observer (newspaper)
Oklahoma, Uighurs in
Old Mr. Zhao. See Zhao Jingxin
Olympic Games
author’s and cab driver’s search for Beijing sites of
Beijing’s preparations for 2008
Chinese athletics and history with
International Olympic Committee inspection visit
past Chinese boycott of
Opium War (1839--1842)
Shenzhen museum for
The Opium War (film)
oracle bones
Anyang archaeological site as source of
Chen Mengjia’s study and book on
divination from
Duan Fang as collector of
fake
inscriptions on
D. Keightley on
Liu E as collector and scholar of
Li Xueqin’s scholarship on
modern attempts to crack
removal of, to Taiwan
Shang civilization and significance of
skepticism about, from Chinese modernizers
Wang Guowei as scholar of
Wang
Yirong as collector of
Western collectors of
Our Country’s Shang and Zhou Bronzes Looted by American Imperialists
Outline of Ancient Chinese History
Palace Museum, Taiwan
pamphlets, illegal
Panjiakou Reservoir, Hebei province
Patten, Christopher
The Pattern of the Chinese Past, (Elvin)
Patton, George F. (military general)
Patton (film)
Pearlstein, Elinor (curator)
peasants, Chinese
at Anyang archaeological site
effects of economic reforms on Sichuan
as migrants (see migrants, Chinese internal)
as movie extras in Jiang Wen film
pedicab driver
Pei, I. M. (architect)
Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Anyang compound
People’s Republic of China. See also China
commemoration for founding of, (National Day)
Persian Gulf War of 1991
PetroChina Tuha Oilfield Company
Pingyao (city)
Pinyin script for Chinese written language
PLA. See People’s Liberation Army
Planet Hollywood franchise
Polat (Uighur émigré)
acquires counterfeit identity and visa documents
acquires Virginia driver’s license
on American minority groups
on Americans
author’s first encounter with
author’s New Yorker article about
author’s visits with, in U.S.
black market currency exchange and trading activities of
car driving and accidents
on courage
flight to U.S., and passage through immigration
jobs held by, in U.S.
life in Washington, D.C.
mugging of
on North Koreans
on G. Patton
plans to immigrate to U.S.
political asylum process in U.S.
prejudice experienced by
rents housing in Chinatown, Washington, D.C.
on terrorist attacks of 9/11
wife and family of
police, Chinese
author’s and cab driver’s interaction with, in Beijing
author’s detention by, at Xituogu village
in Beijing
in Dandong
at Falun Gong demonstrations
plainclothes
political asylum process in U.S.
politics
economic impact of
former student Emily on
in Shenzhen
in Taiwan
Powell, Colin (U.S. secretary of state)
pragmatism, Chinese
Price, Kenneth M. (scholar)
printer’s font, Chinese
propaganda (xuanchuan)
protests. See demonstrations
anti-American
publicity (xuanchuan)
public opinion, Chinese
on terrorist attacks against U.S. (2001)
on U.S. bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade (1999)
on U.S.-China aircraft-collision incident of 2001
putonghua (common speech). See Chinese spoken language
Puyi (emperor)
Al Qaeda
Qian Xuantong (scholar)
qigong breathing exercises
Qin dynasty (221--206 B.C.)
Qin Shihuang (Qin emperor)
terra-cotta warriors of
Qing dynasty (1644--1912)
decline and disintegration of
delegation from, to U.S. (1906)
subjugation of Uighurs by
Taiwan in empire of
Qualcomm Corporation
Radio Free Asia, Uighur broadcasts on
radio programs
hosted by Hu Xiaomei in Shenzhen
Radio Free Asia
Voice of America [see Voice of America (VOA)]
Raging Bull (film)
Rawski, Evelyn S., on Chinese literacy rates
Reagan, Ronald (U.S. president)
Red Sorghum (film)
Reform and Opening policies
film industry in
learning about China’s diversity through
origins of Shenzhen city and
relations with Taiwan and
social issues associated with
religion in China
Republic of China, establishment of (1912)
rice, development of civilizations and role of
romantic relationships
Roosevelt, Theodore (U.S. president)
Rouzi, Sidik Haji (Uighur émigré)
Rumsfeld, Donald (U.S. secretary of defense)
Russian traders, Beijing
Safari Park, Shenzhen
Said, Edward
Salt Lake City Olympic Games of 1998
Sandrine, Chenivesse (anthropologist)
Sanxingdui, Sichuan province, archaeological site and bronze figures
bronzes of
peasant Xu Wenqiu on
Sanxingdui Museum
scholar R. Bagley on
scholar Xu Chaolong on
Sasser, James
Schlöndorff, Volker
Schwarzenegger, Arnold (actor)
Scorsese, Martin (director)
Sehnal, David
Senn, Alfred (scholar)
Shang civilization
Anyang archaeological site. (see also Anyang, Henan province, Shang archaeological site)
bronzes of
chariots of
Chen Mengjia book on
horses and
D. Keightley on
oracle bones in (see also oracles bones)
writing system
Shang dynasty (1766--1122 B.C.)
Shanghai Communiqué
Shanghai Museum
Chen Mengjia and Lucy Chao’s Ming dynasty furniture in
shaoshu minzu (minority groups)
Shaw, George Bernard
Shenzhen, Guangdong province, “Over- night City”
author’s trips to
city fence, social divisions, and border control
Deng Xiaoping’s policies and origins of
economic status as boomtown
former student Emily in
migration to
social issues in
Shenzhen Special Zone Daily (newspaper)
Shih Chang-ju (archaeologist)
on Chen Mengjia
on elections in Taiwan
publications of
on removal of oracle bones to Taiwan
Shih Lei (anthropologist)
Shi Jiangtao (Foreign Ministry functionary)
Shirley (author’s former student)
adjustment problems as migrant workers
author’s visit to
Sichuan province
migrant workers from (see migrants, Chinese internal)
poverty of
recruitment of workers from
Sihanouk, Prince, Cambodia
siheyuan. See courtyard houses (siheyuan)
Silk Road
A Single Tear (Wu Ningkun)
snakeheads (people smugglers)
Snow, Edgar
Sogdian culture
Song dynasty (960--1279)
Song Jian (scholar)
Sources of Shang History (Keightley)
South Korea
Soviet Union, relations with Uighurs
Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
Shenzhen as
Special English
author’s writing in
Voice of America broadcasts and learning
“Spring Story” (song)
Stalin, Joseph
State Language Commission
Sumerian cuneiform writing
Sun
, Sophie
Sun Yat-sen (Chinese president)
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
tai chi
Taiwan
author’s visit to archaeologist Shih Chang-ju in
elections of 2001 in
history of
Kuomintang government in
Taiwan (cont.)
oracle bones removed to, during World War II
political control of, by Japan
in Qing empire
Taiwan Relations Act (1979)
Taiwan reunification issue