Oracle Bones (83 page)

Jilin Petrochemical Design and Research Institute

Jing Zhichun (archaeologist)

Johnson, Ian (journalist)

journalists

comments of foreign, regarding George W. Bush’s state visit to China

Chinese government policy toward

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