Read The River at the Centre of the World Online
Authors: Simon Winchester
Tags: #China, #Yangtze River Region (China), #Biography & Autobiography, #History, #General, #Essays & Travelogues, #Travel, #Asia
China Proper,
304
,
375
China Quarterly, The,
85n
China Sea Pilot
,
36
,
410
China Yangtze River Scientific Observation Drifting Expedition,
358
Chinese Pale,
304
,
307
Chittagong,
94
Chola-shan mountains,
386
Chongming Dao,
43
,
46
Chongqing,
19
,
26
,
130
,
226
,
234
,
242–3
,
266–9
,
280–82
,
286–7
,
336
,
366
Chortens,
380
,
385
Chou En-lai,
215
Ciochon, Russell,
293
Cleese, John,
342
Clinton, Bill,
31
Clipper ships,
175
,
205
Cloud Mountain,
4–5,
264
,
359
,
360–62
,
363
,
364
,
366
,
367
Coates, Austin,
9
Cockchafer
, HMS,
285
Cold War,
109
,
203
Come-to-Me Rock,
271
Communications satellite,
309–10
Communist Party Central Committee,
188
Communist takeover (1949),
87
,
106
Concord
, HMS,
111
Confucianists,
224
Cormorants,
283
Cornwallis
, HMS,
142
,
177
Creation myths,
362
Crush-tear-curl (CTC) process,
181
Cultural Revolution,
86
,
141
,
189
,
190–91
,
201
,
231
,
232
,
255
,
257
,
329
,
339–40
,
381
,
383
,
390
,
391
Currency exchange scam,
247–8
Cuttlefish boats,
42
Da Fu,
325
Dadu River,
378
Dai Qing,
238–40
,
241
,
411
Dalai Lama,
279
,
322
,
325
,
377
,
389
,
398
,
401
Dali,
327
,
333
Dalian,
28
Dam building,
223–9
,
235
,
253–7
,
261–2
,
316–20
Dam Qu stream,
322
,
350–52
,
404
Daoguang, Emperor,
138
,
143
Datong,
124
,
159
David, Père,
337
,
380
Daxue Mountains,
370
Daya Bay,
250
Dead bodies,
90–91
,
193–4
,
321–2
Dêgê,
355
,
373
,
374
,
377
,
381
,
387–91
Democratic Youth Party,
245
Deng Xiaoping,
236
,
241
,
297
Dharmsala, India,
401
Dikes,
157–9
Din-Din Café,
331
Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office, The
,
190
Distilleries,
297–8
Dolphins,
101–4
,
246
Domand Gunpa lamasery,
385
Dong Jiao,
41
Dong Zhi,
276
Dongting Lake,
157
Dove tree,
337
,
361
Dragon Hill Cave,
291–3
Dragon Horse Stream,
275
Dragon's Descendant
(boat),
353
Drepung Monastery,
398
Du, Mrs,
276–8
Earthquakes,
244
East China Sea,
2
,
20
,
33
,
35
,
38
,
150
,
238
,
343
,
391
East India Company,
70–71
,
175–6
East Is Red Number One, The (ship),
198–9
Eder Dam,
244
Eighth Battalion of the Wuchang Engineers,
209
Electrical-power generators,
225
,
227
,
228
,
235–6
,
253
Elizabeth II, Queen,
91
,
198
Elliot, Charles,
143
Ena, Ms,
322
Endangered Species Act,
241
Environmentalism,
239
,
241
,
246
,
253
Epic Undertaking, An
,
219
,
260
Erhai Lake,
364
,
365
Ertan Dam,
316–18
Estuary,
37–43
Expeditions,
352–8
Exports,
214
Expressways,
86
,
216
Extraterritoriality,
106
Face, loss of,
311
Fairy Flats,
49n
Fall of Shanghai, The (Barber),
412
Ferryboats,
116
,
124
,
392
First Opium War,
29
,
57
,
143
Fishermen,
101–3
Five Cereals Liquid,
297
Flatwater,
344
Flood control,
227
,
237
,
364
Flood Relief Commission,
156
,
158
Floods,
149–58
,
163–5
,
192
,
222–3
Flower boats,
139–40
Flying Tigers,
281
,
339
Foochow,
72
,
96
Forbidden City,
209
Foreign debt,
251
Fossils,
291–3
Franchises,
212–13
Franklin Research and Development Corporation,
252
Freedom of Information Act,
31–2
Freeways,
86
,
216
Frozen yogurt,
211
Fu-hsi, Emperor,
363
Fuling,
234
Fushan,
94
Gambling,
73
Gang of Four,
191n
,
232
Garway's Coffee House,
173
,
174
Gas stations,
382–3
Ge Guo-hong,
81–3