This Generation (31 page)

Baixi Township,
101

Bai Ye,
251

Ba Jin,
53

Begging,
193
–96

Beijing,
81
,
84
,
138
,
143

   bringing grievances to,
141
,
192

   cars in,
121

   CCTV headquarters in,
89
–93

   cost of living in,
197
–99

   high-speed train between Shanghai and,
218

   Olympics in,
see
Olympics, Beijing

   Public Security,
89

   rally competition from Hong Kong to,
249
–50

Belgrade, bombing of Chinese embassy in,
43

Bicycles, battery-powered,
117
–20

Bing Xin,
53
,
54

Blacklisting,
49
,
142

   of celebrities,
49
–50

Boao Forum for Asia,
95
n

Boeing 737 airplanes,
127

Boyang Lake,
210

Boycotts,
41
,
67

   of celebrities,
49
–51

   of French businesses and products,
33
–36,
38
–40,
42
,
73
–77

Brainwashing,
167

   of North Koreans,
177

Brazil,
175

Bribery,
11
,
79
–80,
133

   
see also
Corruption

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
92

British colonialism,
97

Buddhism,
47
,
189

Buds
(magazine),
1

Burma,
175

Cable News Network (CNN),
43

Cadillac,
58

Cambodia,
177

Canada,
162

Cannes Film Festival,
47
n

Carrefour supermarket chain, Chinese boycott of
33
–36,
38
–40,
49
,
74

Cars,
237
–38

   cost of owning and driving,
197
–201

   racing,
ix
,
6
,
34
,
64
,
75
–76,
109
–13,
116
,
200
,
229
,
241
–42,
249
–50

   in Shanghai,
121
–22,
153
,
215
–16

   taxes on purchases of,
13

Cash, charitable donations of,
71
–72

Celebrities,
49
–50

   excess births by,
9

   with foreign passports,
105
–6

   value placed on deaths of,
8

Cell phones,
134
,
135

   government capability to block signals,
232

   restrictions on messaging function,
122
–23

Censorship,
x
,
95
n

   Internet,
164
n

   of movies,
18
,
28

   in publishing industry,
222
–24

   self-,
161
,
223
,
224

Chan, Jackie,
95
–98

Chemical plants, pollution from,
169
–70,
190

Chen, Joan,
105

Chen Hong,
105

Chen Kaige,
105
,
251

Chen Ming,
105

Chen Qiqang,
61
–62

Chen Xiaoqin,
105

Children,
242

   attacks on,
157
–60

   begging by,
193
–96

   education of,
see
Education, Chinese system of

   exposed to contaminated products,
67
,
160

China Central Television (CCTV),
2
,
42
,
72

   fire at headquarters of,
89
–93

China Soccer Association,
63
–64

Chinese Communist Party (CCP),
86
,
97
n
,
103
,
111
,
115
,
144
,
204

   in elections,
236
–37

   First Congress of,
215

   Han Feng expelled from,
133
n

   in Hengyang,
129

   membership of,
242
–43

   in Shaoxing,
79
,
80

Chinese New Year,
74
,
81
,
124
,
130
,
139
,
243
,
245

Chinese Rally Championship,
109
–13

Citroën,
38
,
75

Class,
185
,
204
,
235

   disadvantaged,
216

   power and,
178

   ruling, alignment of poor with ideology of,
130

Clothing, charitable donations of,
69
–72

Commerce Talks,
160

Communism, collapse of,
246

Communist Party

   Chinese,
see
Chinese Communist Party

   Soviet,
246

Communist Youth League,
203
n
,
207

Conduct, standards of,
2
–3

Congress of People's Deputies,
246

Constitution

   Chinese,
85
,
102

   Soviet,
246

Consumer tax,
5

Contamination of milk products,
67
,
160

Corruption,
79
–80,
133
n
,
147
,
162
–63,
217

   clamping down on,
75
,
232

   resentment of,
242

Coubertin, Pierre de,
38

Courts,
143
–44,
148
–49

   sentencing of netizens to jail terms by,
145

Credibility, loss of,
2

Criminal syndicates,
121

Cultural Revolution,
2
,
49

Czechoslovakia,
239
–40

Czech Republic,
240

Dalai Lama,
38
,
47
n
,
49

Dams

   Three Gorges,
127
,
209
–11

   Yellow River,
187
n

Defection,
76

Democracy,
192
,
247

   freedom and,
232
–33,
242

   multiparty,
253

   reform and,
240

   revolution and,
237

   and rule of law,
245

   in Taiwan,
96

Demonstrations,
see
Protests, mass

Deng Xiaoping,
97
n

Development zones,
7

Diaoyu Islands,
181
–83,
185
–88

Divorce,
1
,
106
,
107

Donations, charitable,
69
–72

Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën team,
76

Earthquakes,
47
n
,
49
,
50
,
69
,
209

E-bikes,
117
–20

Education, Chinese system of,
14
,
23
–26,
41
,
64

   end-of-year reports in,
249

   news sources in classrooms in,
204

   principles for,
165
–68

Education Today,
18

Egypt,
235

Eight-Nation Alliance,
36
,
44

Enlightenment Daily,
92

Environmental degradation,
209
,
210

   
see also
Pollution

Essays, student,
23
–26

European Union,
76

Factory workers, quality of life of,
169
–73

Feng Shunqiao,
79
–80

Farmland,
see
Land

Fatherhood,
250
–51

Federation of Literary and Art Circles,
246

Ferrari,
76

Fifty-centers,
123
,
129
–31,
252

Flags at half-mast,
21
–22,
39

Floods,
211

Foreign Affairs, Ministry of,
182

Foreign reporters, interviews with,
161
–64

Founding of a Republic, The
(movie),
105
–6,
216
n

Foxconn,
171
–73

France

   boycotting businesses and products from,
33
–36,
38
–40,
42
,
73
–77

   defection of Chinese officials to,
76

   demonstrations for Tibetan independence in,
33
,
43

   incursion by forces from England and,
44

   restrictions on immigration from China to,
36

Freedom [more]

   pressing for,
245
–47

Fujian Province,
145
,
165
,
167
,
183

Gansu Province,
125
–27

   Fifty-centers in,
130

Gasoline, price of,
197
–202

General Administration of Press and Publication,
17

Generations,
1
–3

Genetically engineered foods,
155

Global Times,
96
,
204

Google,
122
–23,
162
,
224
,
237
n

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
246

Government officials,
125
,
133
–35,
141
–42

   bringing grievances to,
192

   corrupt,
see
Corruption

   defection to France of,
76

   in Imperial China,
141

   jail terms for “slandering” of,
145
–49

   mannerisms of,
205

   public opinion poll on performance of,
137
–40

Graft,
80

   
see also
Corruption

Great Relocation, The
(Xie Chaoping),
187
n

Gross domestic product (GDP),
138
,
140
,
170
,
173

   per capita,
162
,
163

Gu Changwei,
105

Guinness Book of World Records,
29

Half-mast, flying flags at,
21
–22,
39

Handan,
82
–84

Handicapped children, begging by,
194
,
195

Han Feng,
133
–35

   public opinion poll on,
137
–39

Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court,
79

Han Zheng,
224

Havel, Vaclav,
236
,
240

Heaven on Earth Night Club (Fujian),
167

Hebei Province,
82
–83

Hefei,
39

Heilongjiang forest fire,
92

Hengyang,
129

Higher education, principles for institutions of,
165

High-speed trains, collision of,
217
–20

Honda,
76

Hong Kong,
95
,
97
,
98
,
147

   films made in,
175

   Google in,
145
,
162
n

   prices in,
198
,
201

   rally competition from Beijing to,
249
–50

Hope Primary School,
127

Household registration,
see
Residence registration

Housing market,
197
–202

Hua Guofeng,
97
n

Huang Ju,
21
n

Huangpu River, bridges over,
127

Huang Wanli,
209

Huang Yibo,
203
–7

Hu Bing,
105

Hu Jintao,
145
n

Hu Jun,
105

Humanitarian ideals,
41

Hunan Satellite TV,
92

Hurricane Katrina,
48

India,
28
,
30

Indonesia,
43

   tsunami in,
48
–50

Industrial pollution,
7

Infant formula, melamine contamination of,
67

Insults to China, accusations of,
27
–31

Intellectual property rights,
57
–59

International Tourism Festival,
160

Internet,
42
,
73
,
99
n
,
133
,
145
–47,
164
n
,
203
n
,
229
,
234
,
237
n
,
242