Far and Away: Reporting From the Brink of Change (84 page)

Communists in,
469

see also
Myanmar

Burmese cats,
478

Burnett, Ricky,
171

Bush, George H. W.,
347

Bush, George W.,
27
,
90
,
326
,
347
–48,
437

Butcher, Duane,
440

Cahill, James,
201

Cai Guo-Qiang,
103

Cultural Melting Bath,
290

Golden Missile,
210

Calder, Alexander,
290

Cambodia:

civil war in,
229
–31

depression in,
229
–35

Future Light Orphanage in,
231
,
235

Khmer medicine in,
233

Khmer Rouge in,
230
–32,
468

mental health in,
235

Cambridge Energy Research Associates,
344

Cameroon, homosexuality punished in,
35

Camp, S. Talcott,
23

Campbell Island,
384

Cao Fei,
135
–36

Cardiff, Janet,
291

Carol I, king of Romania,
437

Cărtărescu, Mircea,
436
,
440
–41

Carvalho, José,
410
–11

Caryl, Christian,
16
–17

Casé, Regina,
425

Castiglione, Giuseppe (“Lang Shining”),
380

Castro, Fidel,
18

Catherine the Great,
5
,
376

Ceauşescu, Nicolae,
6
,
119

Cele, Alois,
156

censorship:

in China,
36
–37,
104
,
175

in Myanmar,
443
,
451
,
461
,
470
–73,
479
–80,
481

and PEN,
36
–37

in Russia,
57
–58,
97
,
98
,
175

in South Africa,
175
–76

Central Academy, Beijing,
108
,
131

Central House of Artists, Moscow,
85
–86

Cernea, Remus,
440
,
441

Cézanne, Paul,
185
,
213

Chang, Johnson,
120

Chang, K. C.,
Food in Chinese Culture,
363

change, unexpected effects of,
28
–30

Chang Lin-sheng,
182
,
190
,
194
,
198

Charles, Prince of Wales,
213

Chechnya, organized crime in,
100

Chekhov, Anton,
11
,
67

Chengdu, China, food in,
366
–67

Chen Guang,
137

Chen Hui-chiao,
208

Chen Shaoping,
113

Chen Shih-meng,
198

Chen Yifei,
125

Chernobyl nuclear disaster,
11

Chiang Kai-shek,
183
,
184
,
188
,
190
,
197
–98,
468

China:

advanced civilization in,
128
–29

and Antarctica,
396

art of,
see
Chinese art

Buddhism in,
381

censorship in,
36
–37,
104
,
175

Communism in,
134
,
188
,
359
,
360
,
375

criticism of government punished in,
138

cultural heritage of,
375

Cultural Revolution,
28
–29,
108
,
113
,
119
–24,
139
,
162
,
193
,
230
,
468

Democracy Wall movement,
108
,
111
,
121
,
123

food in,
359
–71

Forbidden City in,
187
,
188
,
373
–76,
378
,
383

Great Wall,
375

hierarchical society of,
106

housing in,
117
–18

Hygiene Campaign (1991),
117

idealism in,
119
,
123

imperial rulers of,
375
,
381
,
382

intelligentsia in,
105

international trade of,
376

Internet use in,
138
–39

language in,
128
–29

last emperor (Pu Yi) of,
188
,
376

life in,
29

and Myanmar,
449
,
458
,
476

nationalism in,
131
,
192
,
197
,
247

New Policy in,
186

Olympic Games in,
126
,
139

pollution in,
370

possibility of democracy in,
105
,
121
–22,
134

Qianlong Garden in,
373
–84

radical individualism in,
105
,
113
–15,
134
,
136
–40

Red Guards in,
120
,
124

and reunification,
202
–4,
206

ruling the world,
132

Sichuan earthquake (2008),
139

social change in,
360

and Taiwan,
184
,
185
,
195
,
196
–98,
205
,
206

Tiananmen Square,
26
,
109
,
110
,
115
,
121
–22,
123
,
137
,
138
,
374
,
448

tradition of conformity in,
105
,
112
,
113
,
121
,
131
,
134
,
139

two camps in,
141

updates,
135
–40,
369
–71

Warring States period (475–221 BC),
378

Western exhibitions in,
125
–28

Chinati Foundation, Texas,
287

Chinese art,
103
–39

abroad,
129

artist harassment and lawsuit,
132
–34,
137

avant-garde,
105
,
106
–8,
109
–10,
113
–17,
118
–23,
124
,
125
,
127
,
131

brush-and-ink painting, traditional,
108
,
112
–13,
124
–25,
128
,
206

calligraphy,
187
,
199
–203,
378

categories of,
110

collections of,
186
–88

contemporary,
135
–40

Cynical Realism,
110
–12,
118
,
135
,
140

and emphasis on past,
202

Gaudy Art,
135
,
140

guohua
styles,
125
,
128

hidden meanings in,
138
–39,
186
,
205
,
272
,
378

Imperial Collection,
187
–89,
192
,
203
,
379

Japanese influence on,
380

landscape paintings,
186
,
378
,
379

literati (scholar-artist ink painting),
108
,
290
,
379

moved to Taiwan (1949),
183
,
185
,
188
,
198

New Revolutionaries,
119
,
129

“No U-turn” symbol in,
109
–10

official crackdown on,
136
–40

paper cutting,
131

performance art,
137

Political Pop,
110
,
112
,
118
,
475

Post-’89 influence on,
111
,
112
,
113
,
115
,
118
–19,
122

as propaganda vehicle,
140

realism,
108
,
125

sales of,
135

scrolls,
190

“slender gold” calligraphy,
201

history of,
108
–10

Soviet model for,
108

US tour (
Chinese Art Treasures
, 1961),
188

and Western art,
108
,
109
,
125
,
131
–32,
135
,
210
,
381

Chin Hsiao-yi,
184
,
190
–91,
193

Chin women, tattoos of,
465

Chirac, Jacques,
348

Chitambo, Chief,
224
–25

Chizhov, Georgy,
102

Chopin, Frédéric,
366

Chou Chuan,
191
,
192

Chou Hai-sheng,
206

Chou Kung-shin,
203

Christiansen, René Birger,
255

Chuck (friend),
294

Chu Hui-liang,
191
,
194

Chu Ko,
191

Chuykov, Ivan:

Fragment of a Fence,
52
–53

Noughts and Crosses,
53

CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict),
285

civil partnership,
34

Clements, Alan,
453

Clinton, Bill,
90
,
193
,
347

My Life
,
322

Clinton, Hillary,
356

CNN,
60
,
66

Coetzee, J. M.,
148

Collective Action Group (K/D), USSR,
46
–49,
52

Colombia, sexual identity in,
34

Confucius,
187
,
381

Congreve, William,
327

Connoisseur,
45

Conservation International (CI),
294

Conwill, William Louis,
268

Copacabana,
408

Coral Sea,
485

Cosmoscow,
57

Cousteau, Jacques,
484

Crimmins, Pamela,
7
–8

crossroads of history,
5
–6,
22
,
29

Cuba:

autocracy in,
26

celebrations in,
18
–19

changes in,
18

cultural dissonance,
20
–23,
129
–30

cultural exclusion,
39

Cultural Revolution,
see
China

Daesh (ISIS),
34

Dai Jianyong,
137

Dalai Lama:

coining of the title,
238

and living Buddha,
381

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama,
429

da Silva Pereira, Douglas Rafael,
426

Dayan, Moshe,
468

deafness,
397
–405

Dean I-mei,
207
,
208

Made in Hong Kong,
207

De Maria, Walter,
290
,
291

democracy:

arrival of,
28
–29

as euphemism for capitalism,
95
,
185
,
327

and freedom,
129

local meanings of the word,
74
,
90
–91,
93
,
105
,
121
–22,
134
,
139
,
336
–37,
446
,
451

de Montebello, Philippe,
184
,
187
,
192
,
193
,
195
,
196
,
202

de Morro Agudo, Dudu,
422

Deng Xiaoping,
29
,
105
,
134
,
375

Denisov, Nikita,
102

depression:

alternative treatments of,
262

and distraction,
233

and learning to forget,
233
–34,
235

and learning to love,
234
–35

and loneliness,
257

Noonday Demon
(Solomon),
32
,
36
,
211
,
229
,
249
,
261
,
435
,
436
–37

rescue from isolation,
234
,
257

and suicide,
250
,
257
,
258

talking about emotions,
253
–54,
256
–58

and trust,
234

and working,
234
,
235

writing about recovery,
261
–62

de Pury, Simon,
50
,
51
,
52
,
53

de Souza, Amarildo,
426

de Wet, Barend,
150

Didenko, Tanya,
66
,
75

Ding Fang,
132

Ding Yi,
127
,
131

Diouf, Madame,
263
–65

diplomacy,
40
–42

disability, social constructionist model of,
405

diversity, embracing,
41
–42

Djebbar, Maître Saad,
323

Dmitri (ship captain),
389
–90,
392
–93

Dobrokhotov, Roman,
102

d’Offay, Anthony,
126

Donadio, Mr. (teacher),
5