The River at the Centre of the World (54 page)

Murray, John,
128

Musicians,
330

Myself a Mandarin
(Coates),
9n

Nagqu,
397
,
398

Nakhi people,
303
,
328–31
,
334
,
336
,
337
,
365

Nanjin Pass,
232

Nanjing,
19
,
106
,
114
,
115–46
,
154
,
202
,
211,
216
,
366

Nanjing Treaty Museum,
142–5

Nanking Incident of 1927,
121
,
142

Nanking, Rape of,
131–5

Nation
, The,
285

National Geographic
,
378

National Geographic Society,
334
,
351

National People's Congress,
240
,
251

National Security Council (NSC),
31

Nationalists,
314
,
315

Nautical charts,
29–30
,
409

Navy, Chinese,
53–5

Needham, Joseph,
410

New Chinese Army,
207

New Rapid,
273
,
279

New York City Comptroller's Investment Responsibility Office,
252

New York World
,
285

Ningbo,
40
,
47
,
72

Ningjing Range,
394

North-China Daily News,
210

Observer
,
408

Odyssey Guide to Sichuan
,
409

On Leaving Bai Di Cheng
(Walker),
411

Oolong tea,
181

Opium divans,
72–3

Opium trade,
176–9
,
213

Opium Wars,
29
,
57
,
76
,
143
,
177
,
204

Oriental Pearl Television Tower,
66–9
,
82
,
86

Otters,
283

Pagodas,
160–62

Palaeontological discoveries,
291–4

Palin, Michael,
342

Palmerston, Lord,
57
,
143

Panay
(gunboat),
285

Panchen Lama,
401

P‘an-ku,
362

Panzhihua,
311
,
315
,
322
,
324
,
366

Paracel Islands,
53

Parasites,
195

Peach Blossom Hotel,
248–50

Pearl River,
3
,
87
,
88
,
197
,
217

Pearl Rocks,
271
,
272

Peking.
See
Beijing

Peking Man,
293
,
294

Peng Dehuai,
188–92

People's Daily
,
189–90

People's Liberation Army (PLA),
107
,
113
,
188
,
190

People's Park,
75

People's Square,
75
,
86

People's Theatre,
173
,
186–7
,
188

Pepper wood,
389
,
390

Perucia Dam,
244

Pickering, J.V.,
134

Pictorial History of China Navigation Company Limited
,
412

Pidgin English,
74–5

Pingshan,
136
,
300
,
304

Pioneer
(ship),
268–9

Plagues,
138

Plant Memorial,
274–6

Plant, Cornell,
265
,
267
,
268–74
,
337
,
345
,
411

Poetry,
217–18

Policemen,
72
,
79
,
119–20
,
388–9
,
393–5

Polo, Marco,
91
,
100–101
,
265

Pottinger, Sir Henry,
143

Poyang Lake,
157
,
165
,
246

Princess Jeannie
(ship),
91

Printing house,
389–91

Prosperous Kingdom Guest House,
65–6

Prostitution,
72–4
,
78–9
,
146

Pu Lan Tian.
See
Plant, Cornell

Pu Ping,
312

Pu Yi,
21
,
130
,
206
,
211

Public Security Bureau,
28
,
304
,
330
,
372

Putonghua
(common speech),
26

Qamdo,
389
,
393
,
395
,
397

Qemo Ho Lake,
351
,
352–3

Qian Shan Po,
277

Qianlong, Emperor,
155

Qiatou,
346
,
356

Qin dynasty,
158

Qing dynasty,
15
,
95
,
121
,
143
,
174
,
209
,
276
,
360
,
375
,
376
,
379

Qingdao,
220

Qinghai province,
33
,
245
,
333
,
343
,
374
,
393

Qiyang,
143

Qumar stream,
351

Qutang Gorge,
271

Rabe, John,
133

Rafting expeditions,
353–9

Railway Protection Movement,
207
,
209

Railways,
57–61
,
129
,
205–10
,
370

Rainfall,
151–53
,
158

Ransomes and Rapier,
59

Rape of Nanking,
131
,
134

Rapids,
305–6
,
345–9
,
357

Red Army,
306
,
313–14

Red Basin,
225
,
265
,
294
,
295
,
375

Red Guards,
201
,
275
,
340
,
383

Red River,
3
,
366
,
367

Red tea,
180

Regal China Company,
258

Renmin Wenbao
,
169

Retention basins,
158

Rice industry,
184

Riding the Dragon's Back
(Bangs & Kallen),
412–13