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
Tianjin,
131
Tibet,
322
,
356
,
369–70
,
373–6
,
379–407
Tibetan foothills,
303
Tibetan people,
278–9
,
322–3
,
325
,
383–91
Tibetan Plateau,
150
,
225
,
295
,
345
,
351
,
382
,
396
,
406
Tides,
124–5
,
160
Tientsin,
95
Tiger Leaping Gorge,
327
,
330
,
346–9
,
356
,
366
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal,
132
,
134
Tolley, Admiral Kemp,
410–11
Tongtian He,
345
,
350–52
,
354
Topographical maps,
30–31
Trackers,
267
,
268
,
277
,
279
,
289–90
Travel Survival Guide to China
,
409
Treaty of Nanking,
142–5
,
270
Trobriand Islanders,
334
Tsampa
(Tibetan food),
380
,
396
Tsingtao beer,
220
,
311
Tuotuo stream,
322
,
340–41
,
374
Tuotuoheyan,
403
,
405
Tuotuoheyan bridge,
404
,
406–7
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,
236
,
241
Upper Hutiao Shoal,
349
,
356
ur-Chinese,
25
Ürümqi,
216
Van Slyke, Lyman,
408
Vietnam,
53
,
264
,
366
Vinegar industry,
97–9
Wahnsien Incident of 1926,
283–5
Walker, Caroline,
411
Walker, Frank,
316–17
,
322
Wallich, Nathaniel,
178
Wang Hui,
10
,
14
,
15–16
,
20
,
325
,
352
,
405
Wang, Mr,
312
,
316
Wang-ching,
95
Wanxian,
234
,
274
,
282
,
283–6
War Crimes Tribunal,
132
,
134
Warlords,
284–5
Warren, Ken,
354–5
,
358
Water snakes,
194–5
Weale, Putnam,
85n
Wen Li Chang Jiang
(painting),
10
,
14–23
Wen Zi-jian,
171
,
191–2
Weng, Wan-go,
14–23
,
25
Whangpoo Park,
85
Whangpoo River,
48–9
,
52
,
56
,
66
,
78
,
84
,
91
,
94
Whangpoo River Tide Gauge,
48
Whirlpools,
271
,
345
White water,
346
,
348
Widgeon
, HMS,
285
Williams-Ellis, Clough,
63
Wilson, Ernest,
337
Wind Moving Pagoda of Anqing,
154–60
Wong How Man,
351
Woodcock
, HMS,
268
Woodlark
, HMS,
268
Woosung,
57–9
,
61
Woosung Bar,
48–53
,
58
,
205
,
226
,
407
Woosung Fort,
110
Woosung Road Co. Ltd,
59
Worcester, George,
270
,
301
,
409
World Bank,
165
,
233
,
241
,
251
Wu De Yin,
148–9,
162–3
,
167
Wu Han,
189–91
,
191n
Wu Wei,
322–6
,
355
,
370
Wuchang,
203
,
209
Wuhan,
26
,
130
,
154
,
155
,
157
,
191
,
195
,
196
,
198n
,
199
,
201
,
202–5
,
209
,
211–17
,
221
,
237
,
245
,
267
,
281
,
287
,
366
Wuhu,
124
Wuliangye distillery,
297–8
Wupans (small boats),
47
Wusong Kou,
45
,
48
Xiamen,
216
Xian,
209
,
313
Xiang River,
198
,
217–18
Xiao-an,
79
Xichang,
306
,
309–10
Xikang province,
375
,
377
,
379
Xiling Gorge,
229
,
257n
,
268
,
272
,
273
Xing Guo Hotel,
65
Xinjiang province,
245
Xintan,
273
,
274–9
Xishuangbanna,
327
Xu Xiake,
350
Xu Xiaoyang,
370–74
Xuan Ke,
329–30
Xuan-tong.
See
Pu Yi
Ya‘an,
378
Yaks,
382
,
403
Yalong Jiang,
306
,
316
Yang Sen,
284–5
Yang Shangkun,
91
,
198
,
199–200
Yangshuo,
327
Yangtze – Nature History and the River
(Van Slyke),
408
Yangtze Dam.
See
Three Gorges Dam
Yangtze Entrance Large Automatic Navigation Buoy,
33
,
35
Yangtze First Bridge,
122–4
,
202
,
281
Yangtze furnaces,
281
Yangtze Patrol
(Tolley),
410–11
Yangtze Reminiscences
(Torrible),
411
Yangtze Valley and Beyond, The
(Bird),
411
Yangtze Valley Planning Office,
245
Yangtze, Yangtze
(Dai Qing),
239
,
411
Yangzhou,
113–14
,
116
,
122
Yangzi River, The
(Bonavia),
409
Yanshiping,
403