Age of Ambition (61 page)

When we were barely out of our teens, I met Jennifer Joel; when she became a literary agent, I became her client and, thus, the beneficiary of her immense gifts as a reader and an advocate. At ICM, she has been aided by Clay Ezell and Madeleine Osborn, and I thank them all for their expertise and care.

My family, which is vast and devoted, put up with a decade's worth of missed holidays and birthdays, interspersed with visits fogged by jet lag. My extraordinary mother, Susan, raised us to be at home in the world and to stand up for the values that matter; Peter, a newsman and publisher, is, forever, my mentor, inspiration, and coconspirator. My wise sister, Katherine Sanford, and her husband, Colin, fed me and revived me; their children—Ben, Pete, and Mae—showed us what a family can be.

Sarabeth Berman came to Beijing to stay for a year. Then she met me. Seven years later, we returned to America, married. China gave me Sarabeth, and for that alone I am grateful to it. She has given me a second family: Ruth Nemzoff and Harris Berman, Kim Berman and Farzad Mostashari, Mandy Lee Berman and Seth Berman, Rebecca Berman and Franklin Huang. Sarabeth's love, her wisdom to prefer every word be read aloud, and, most of all, her laughter, sustain me. Her innate good judgment makes every sentence better. Nothing that I write, except for this paragraph, is done until she hears it.

 

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abortion

Accor

Acheson, Dean

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.

Adamson, Bob

Adelson, Sheldon

Adolph, Christopher

Ai Dan

Ai Qing

airline passengers

airports

air quality

Ai Weiwei; arrest and imprisonment of; release of; tax liability of

Alley of National Studies

Amtrak

Analects (Confucius)

Ancien Régime and the Revolution, The,
(Tocqueville)

Anti, Michael

Anti-CNN.com

Anti-Rightist Campaign

Ao Man Long

Apple Daily

April Media

Arab Spring

Arendt, Hannah

arranged marriages

art; avant-garde; commercial market in; fake; revolutionary realism

Article 35

ArtReview

Asher, David

Asian Development Bank

aspiration; authoritarianism vs.

Auden, W. H.

Au Kam San

Aung San Suu Kyi

authoritarianism, aspiration vs.

Azevedo, Paulo

baby formula

Baidu

Banco Delta Asia

banks

Barbie

Bare-Handed Fortunes

Barmé, Geremie

Basic English

Beautiful Destiny (Jiayuan)

Becquelin, Nicholas

Beijing: Ai's protest in; foreign invasion of; house prices in; labor migration to; as poor city; sandstorms in; subway in

Beijing Daily

Beijing International Executive MBA program

Beijing Normal University

Beijing Public Security Bureau

Beijing South Railway Station

Belgrade

Bell Tower

Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine

Bennett, James Gordon

Berlusconi, Silvio

Berman, Sarabeth

Beuys, Joseph

black-collar class

Blackstone Group

Blair, Tony

bloggers

blood contractors

Bloomberg News

Bobos

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
(Brooks)

Boehner, John

Bokhary, Verina

Book from the Sky, A
(Xu)

Bouazizi, Mohammed

Bo Xilai

Brady, Anne-Marie

brainwashing

bribes; as hidden; of judges

bride wealth

bridge collapses

Broad Union

Brooks, David

Buddhism

Bureau of Letters and Visits

Bureau of Public Opinion

Bush, George W.

Cafferty, Jack

Caijing
; government approval required for; growth of; investors in; management buyout plan of

Cao, Henry

Cao, Leo

Caochangdi

Cao family

Cao Haili

Cao Qifeng

Carrefour

Carter, Jimmy

Catholicism

Célestin Monga

cell phones

censorship

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Central Japan Railway

Central Publicity (Propaganda) Department;
Caijing
and; on train crash

century of national humiliation

Charter 08

Charter 77

Chen

Chen Danqing

Chen Guangcheng; escape of; house arrest of; in prison; release of

Chen Guangfu

Chen Guojun

Cheng Yizhong

Chen Jieren

Chen Kegui

Chen Xianmei

Chen Yun

Chen Yunying

Cheung Chi-tai

Cheung Yan

Chicago Tribune

Chim Pui-chung

China: alleged currency manipulation of; anti-Japanese protests in; average income in; billionaires in; bloggers in; capitalist reforms in; censorship in; central bank of; civil war in; constitution of; creative class in; economic growth in; food in; happiness in; history studies in; housing prices in; inequality in; intergenerational mobility in; Internet use in; investment in; Japanese occupation of; Japan's Diaoyu Islands dispute with; Jasmine protests in; labor migration in; land reform in; life expectancy in; literacy rates in; luxury goods in; popular approval of; press in; real estate boom in; revolution in; special economic zones in; spiritual awakening in; stereotypes of; stimulus plan in; stock markets in; tax system in; Tibet protests in; travel from; Uighur-Han riot in; urban growth in; Western culture as perceived by

China, U.S. relationship with; Belgrade embassy bombing and; and Chinese crackdown on Internet; Mao's establishment of; U.S. recognition of

ChinaAid

China Business Times

China Can Say No

China Center for Economic Research

China Central Television

China Daily

China eCapital

China Entrepeneur

ChinaGeeks

China Miracle, The
(Lin, Cai and Li)

China Mobile

China Newsweek

China Railway Signal and Communication Corporation

China Stand Up!

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Chinese Association for the Study of Confucius

Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association

Chinese Citizens' Guide to Civilized Behavior Abroad, The

Chinese classics

Chinese Dream

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Chongqing, China, murder in

Chow Yun-fat

Christianity; Evangelical

Cities of Sin
(de Leeuw)

Civil Affairs Ministry, Chinese

civil war, Chinese

Civil War, U.S.

Cixi, Empress Dowager

class

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
(Fussell)

Clinton, Hillary

CNN

Coca-Cola

Cohen, Jerome

Cohen, Joan Lebold

Cold War

college admissions

Colombia

color revolution

COMDEX

Communist Party, Chinese; alleged virtue of; censorship by; Central Committee of; Charter 08 denounced by; class opposed by; corruption in; culture planned by; dissidents contained by; Eighteenth Party Congress of; free market fundamentalism disdained by; land reform of; membership of; as “Party in Power”; propaganda studied by; Seventeenth National Congress of; on values; and Wenzhou train crash

Communist Youth League

concubines

Confucianism

Confucius

Confucius Institute

Confucius Temple

Congress, U.S.

Congressional-Executive Commission on China, U.S.

Conrad, Joseph

Corak, Miles

Corallo, Mark

corruption; as anarchic; in art; growth and; plans for rooting out; punishment of;
see also
bribes

Cosmopolitan

Cotter, Holland

Cotton Flower Alley

Crazy English

Crédit Mobilier

CTGZ

Cui Tiankai

cults

Cultural Revolution

currency, China's alleged manipulation of

cushion hypothesis

Dalai Lama

Daley, Richard M.

Danni

Danwei

Daoism

Darwin, Charles

das Neves, Manuel Joaquim

Defense Ministry, Taiwan

Delacroix, Eugène

de Leeuw, Hendrik

De Meuron

democracy

Democracy Forum

Democracy Wall

democratic centralism

Deng Lijun

Deng Qian

Deng Xiaoping; capitalist reforms of; China opened by; Mao's purging of; public relations of; U.S. political system disdained by

Depardieu, Gerard

Dewey, John

Diamond Bachelors

Dianping

Diaoyu Islands

Di Bona, Richard

DiCaprio, Leonardo

Dignity Revolution

Ding Shumiao

Ding Yun

DINKs (double income, no kids)

“Directives from the Ministry of Truth”

Discourse on Metaphysics
(Leibniz)

divorce

domestic violence

Dong Wenjun

Douban

DreamWorks

Drum Tower

Duchangtuan

Dujiawang

Easterlin, Richard

Economic Daily

Economist

economy, Chinese: capitalist reforms in; growth in; investment in; special zones in; stimulus plan in; stock markets in; tax system in

education; bribes needed for

Educational Campaign to Maintain the Advanced Nature of the Chinese Communist Party

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Engle, Stephen

English

English
(Wang)

Enron

environment

Environmental Protection Bureau

Equitable Life Building

Eriksen, Edvard

Eriksson, Tor

“Everyone Asks Everyone”

Expert Detective Heng Te

Facebook

factories

Factory 798

Fairytale

Fake Cultural Development Ltd.

FAKE Design

Falun Gong

Fang Binxing

Fang Cai

Fang Kecheng

Fang Lizhi

Fang Qingyuan

Fang Zhouzi

Fan Kuan

Faye Li

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Feng Boyi

Feng Guifen

Feng Xiaogang

Feng Zhi

financial crisis

financial risk

Financial Times

First Opium War

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Five Nos

floods

Forbes

Forbidden City

Foreign Affairs Ministry, Chinese

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Foreign IPO Fever

Forsythe, Michael

Foshan, China

Founding of a Party, The

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Foxconn Technology

Fox News

France

Freedom of Government Information Law

free market

friend-making clubs

Friends

Front Page

Fu, Bob

Fudan University

Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)

Fussell, Paul

Gaarder, Jostein

gambling

“Gangnam Style”

Gao Xiqing

Gao Ying

Gao Zhisheng

Garcia, Jack

“Gardener's Dream, The”

Gate of Heavenly Peace

General Affairs Office

Genovese, Kitty

Germany

Germany, Nazi

Gerui-te

Gilded Age

Ginsberg, Allen

Global Times

Global Trade Mansion

Goebbels, Joseph

Goldman Sachs

Gong Haibin

Gong Hainan; dating website of; marriage of

Gong Haiyan

Goossaert, Vincent

Gorky, Maxim

Got Rich First Crowd

Grass Mud Horse

Great Britain

Great Firewall

Great Gatsby, The
(Fitzgerald)

Great Hall of the People

Great Leap Forward

Great Wall of China

Greece

Greece, ancient

Grove, Dan

Guanghong, Jin

Guggenheim Museum

Guidebook for the Soul, A

Guide to Entering Shanghai: For Brothers and Sisters Who Come to Shanghai to Work

Guide to Purchasing Upscale Goods

Gu Kailai

gun control

Guo, Mrs.

Guo Jianzeng

Guomai Culture and Media

Guo Yanjin (Karen)

Guo Yuhua

Gu Xiaojie (Handy)

Häagen-Dazs

Han Changdong

Han Chinese

Han Feng

Han Han; censorship of

Han Han Digest

Hansen, Mette Halskov

Hardware City

Harmony Express

Harvard Girl

Havel, Václav

Haynes, John

health insurance

Health Ministry, Chinese

Hebei Economic Daily

Hecaitou

Helen Keller glasses

He Peirong

Hersey, John

Herzog

Heshen

Heywood, Neil

He Zhaofa

highways

history studies

Hitler, Adolf

HIV

Ho, Stanley

Holy Land of National Studies

Home Depot

homosexuality

Hong Kong; SARS in

Horng, Jyimin