Oracle Bones (84 page)

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