Oracle Bones (81 page)

Olympic Games in (
see
Olympic Games)

Yabaolu district

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Bergen, Paul

Bin Laden, Osama

black market, Beijing

Black Robe
(film)

Blair, Dennis (U.S. Admiral)

blood type, beliefs about

bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1999)

Chinese government response to

Chinese public’s protests against

Observer
reports about U.S. role in

press headlines about

U.S. account of

Boodberg, Peter A.

Boston Globe
(newspaper)

author’s work for

Brashear, Bob (can manufacturer)

Bredon, Juliet (writer)

bronze figures

Chen Mengjia’s study and book on Shang and Zhou civilizations

horses

Sanxingdui civilization

Boxer Uprising (Boxers United in Righteousness movement)

Buddhism

Bulaotun Township police

bureaucracy, Chinese

Bush, George W. (U.S. president)

China-U.S. aircraft collision incident and

state visit to China (2002)

Bush, Laura

calligraphy, Chinese

Cang Jie (legendary inventor of Chinese writing)

Cantonese language

Cao Jie (physician)

censorship

of Chinese films

of Chinese media

Chalfant, Frank H.

Changchun, Jilin province, cornstarch industry in

Chang, K. C. (scholar)

Chang, Michael (American athlete)

Chao, Lucy (scholar)

husband (
see
Chen Mengjia)

Ming dynasty furniture collection belonging to

persecution of, in Cultural Revolution

translation of W. Whitman works by

treatment of, by brother Zhao Jingxin

visit of, to Chicago Art Institute

Wu Ningkun on

chariots, Shang civilization

Chen, Sisy (Taiwan politician)

Chengdu, Sichuan province, anti-American protests in

Chen Luyu (TV commentator)

Chen Mengjia (scholar)

advocacy for retention of traditional writing system by

book on oracle bones and Shang civilization by

book on Shang and Zhou bronzes by

brother Chen Mengxiong on

contradictory accounts of

Cultural Revolution and persecution of

death of

family, early life, and education of

labeled as Rightist and sent to labor camp

Li Xueqin on

Li Xueqin’s 1957 criticism of

Ming dynasty furniture collection belonging to Lucy Chao and

reported illicit affair of

K. Takashima on

Shih Chang-ju on

Wang Jun on

wife [
see
Chao, Lucy (scholar)]

Wu Ningkun on

Zhou Youguang on

Chen Mengxiong (hydrogeologist)

on brother Chen Mengjia

career of

on collection of Ming-era furniture

on Cultural Revolution

on persecution of wife

Chen Shui-bian (Taiwan president)

Chen Xiandan (museum official)

Chen Xitong (major of Beijing)

Chen Zixiu (Falun Gong believer)

Chiang Ching-kuo (Kuomintang Taiwan leader)

Chiang Kai-shek.
See also
Kuomintang government

China

aircraft-collision incident with U.S.

George W. Bush state visit to (2002)

civil war in

domination of leadership from southern regions in

economic links between Taiwan and

establishment of Republic of (1912)

ethnic diversity of

government policy toward Uighur minority

modern economy and currency of

19th-century foreign intrusions into

response of, to 9/11 terrorist attacks

China Daily
(newspaper)

China Sports Museum

China Tourism

Chinatown, Washington, D.C.

Chinese culture and civilization

ancestor veneration

author on American and

compared to Western culture

Confucianism

conservatism of

Chinese culture and civilization (
cont
.)

conservatism of, and stability of writing system

contradictions in

emphasis on unity and rediscovery of diversity in

I. Galambos on importance of written word to

horses in

impact of geography on

Li Xueqin on early

materialism and nationalism in

meaning of written word and writing in

origins in Yellow River Valley

sense of proper order in

spiritual vacuum in

view of history

Chinese embassy in Belgrade, U.S. bombing of

Chinese law

on camping at Great Wall

Chinese Olympic Committee

Chinese people

Jiang Wen’s reflections on

literacy rates in 18th and 19th centuries for male

W. Tien’s reflections on psychology of mainlanders

Chinese spoken language

Cantonese

common speech (
putonghua
)

dialects (
fangyan
)

literacy and

Chinese written language

arguments for reform and replacement of, with alphabet

calligraphy and

character shape

character simplification adopted by communists (1955)

Chen Mengjia’s support for retaining traditional

J. DeFrancis on

earliest forms of (
see also
oracle bones, inscriptions on)

dictionaries of

I. Galambos on

I. Galambos’s Web site and sale of Chinese characters to Westerners

literacy and

as logographic system

V. Mair on links among horses, bronze technology, Sogdian culture, and

Mao Zedong on reform of

mythic origins of

order and pattern in Chinese culture, and origins of

persecution during Cultural Revolution for failure to properly write

Pinyin script for

stability of, and Chinese culture

K. Takashima on

work of Zhou Youguang, Yin Binyong, and Wang Jun on reform of

Chi Zhiqiang (singer)

Chuang Tzu

passages from

Cindy (daughter of Driver Yang), on her study abroad

Communist Party

Chen Mengjia on

civil war between Kuomintang and

International Olympics Committee and

Mao’s reform of Chinese writing system and support from

Clifford, Nicholas R.

Clinton, Bill (U.S. president)

Communist Youth League

A Comprehensive Survey of the Divination Inscriptions from the Wastes of Yin
(Chen Mengjia)

Comparet, Bertrand L.

Confucianism and Confucius

constitution, Chinese

cornstarch industry, author’s writing assignment on

corruption

Couling, Samuel

counterfeit goods and services (
jiade
)

educational certifications

identity cards

knock-off clothing

oracle bones

visa documents

Country Music Association, Emily’s letter to

courtyard houses (
siheyuan
)

destruction of Zhao Jingxin’s, Beijing

Crescent Moon Society

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(film)

Cultural Relics Bureau

Cultural Revolution

destruction of property in

impact of, on Chinese written language

“struggle sessions” of

suffering of intellectuals in

currency exchange, black market

Dai Xiaohong.
See
Foster, William Jefferson “Willy” (author’s former student)

Dai Yuecan (daughter of Willy and Nancy)

Dandong, Liaoning province, author’s trip to

Dandong Border Cooperative Economic Zone

danwei
(work unit)

DeFrancis, John (scholar)

on Chinese reform of Chinese writing system

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan

elections of 2001 and

demonstrations

anti-American/anti-NATO (1999)

commemorations of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Deng Xiaoping (Chinese political leader).
See also
Reform and Opening policies

De Niro, Robert

Devils on the Doorstep
(film)

banned in China

wins prize at Cannes

dictionaries, Chinese

divination, oracle bones and

Dobson, Richard

Dorr-Oliver (Dutch company), author’s writing assignment about cornstarch industry for

Doubting in Antiquity School

dragon bones.
See
oracle bones

The Dream of the Red Mansion
(classic novel)