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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, Condoleezza (U.S. secretary of state)

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

George W. Bush on

Takashima, Ken-ichi

on cracking oracle bones
on origins of Chinese writing
on work of Chen Mengjia

“talent markets” (employment centers)

Taliban and Islamic terrorists

Tang dynasty (618--917
A.D
.)

Tang Jigen (archaeologist)

taotie
design

Tarim Basin

movie set in
mummies discovered in

tea

incorporation of, into Chinese culture
writing about

television, introduction of, into rural Sichuan province (1980s)

Tenet, George (CIA director)

terra-cotta figures, Shaanxi province archaeological sites

terrorism

Chinese government’s attempt to link Uighurs with
Taiwanese S. Chen on
U.S. statement on Uighur ETIM movement and

terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Chinese public opinion on, (2001)
official Chinese response to
Polat and
videos and DVDs of

Thatcher, Margaret (British prime minister)

Thomas, Dylan

Three Gorges Dam

Tiananmen Square, Beijing

Falun Gong demonstrations at
tenth-anniversary commemoration of 1989 protests in

Tian Zhicheng (museum curator)

Tibet and Tibetans

Tien, Wilson (Taiwan political leader)

tools, Luoyang spades

The Touch
(film)

tourism in China

Americans, at Falun Gong demonstration

“The Travels of Old Derelict” (
Lao Can Youji
)

A Truthful Impression of the Country
(Clifford)

Tsinghua University

George W. Bush speech at

“Twelve Months of Migrant Labor” (song)

Tyson, Mike (athlete)

 

Uighurs (ethic group)

American political conservatives as allies of
attitudes of, toward Islam
Chinese government policy toward
culture and history of
expatriate community of, in U.S.
independence movement
international views of
ostensible connections to Taliban and Osama bin Laden
political asylum for
protests conducted by
Senator Jesse Helms, as ally of
status as Chinese ethnic group
U.S. policy toward

United States

aircraft-collision incident with China
author on, after 9/11 terrorist attacks
Chinese perceptions of

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