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counterfeit documents to enter

I. Galambos on importance of movies to culture of

Justice Department

NATO bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade and

terrorist attacks (
see
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001)

Uzbekistan

videos and DVDs of 9/11 terrorist attacks

villages, abandoned Chinese

Voice of America (VOA)

Special English broadcasts on

Uighur broadcasts on

Wall Street Journal
(newspaper)

author’s employment at Beijing bureau

reports on Falun Gong in

Wal-Mart

Wang, Xiansheng (Chinese executive)

Wang Delu (peasant amateur archaeologist)

Wang Erxiao (peasant hero)

“Wang Erxiao” (song)

Wang Guowei (oracle bones scholar)

Wang Jun (linguistic scholar), author’s interview with, regarding reform of Chinese writing system, and his criticism of poet Yuan Xiaoyuan

Wang Shimin (Chen Mengjia’s student)

Wang Shuo (writer)

Wang Wei (Chinese military pilot)

Wang Xueqi (actor)

Wang Yirong (oracle bones collector)

Wang Zhi, legend about immortals and

Warriors of Heaven and Earth
(film), author’s visit to movie set

Washington, D.C.

Polat’s life in

Watergate scandal

Web sales of Chinese characters

weida
(great)

Wenzhou, Zhejiang province

Western history and civilization

hero concept in China and in

idea of sports and athletic competition in

Latin language in

white supremacists

Whitman, Walt, Lucy Chao’s translations of

Wilson, James Harrison

women, suicide rate among Chinese

World Economic Forum

World Trade Organization (WTO)

writing.
See
Chinese written language

Wu Ding (Shang king)

Wu Ming (protester)

Wu Ningkun (writer)

on Chen Mengjia

life and career of

on Lucy Chao

A Single Tear
(book)

wushu
martial arts

Wuwei, Gansu province, bronze horses discovered at

Wu Zetian (Tang empress)

Xia dynasty (ca. 2205--1766
B.C
.)

Xi’an, Shaanxi province

archaeology and artifacts of

Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project

Xinhua news agency

Xinjiang province

Jiang Wen movie set in

mummies discovered in Tarim Basin of

terrorism threat and Chinese government policy in

Uighurs in

Xituogu village, Great Wall at

elections in

Xu, Xiansheng (economic development executive)

xuanchuan
, publicity and propaganda

Xu Chaolong (scholar), on Sanxingdui civilization

Xu Jicheng (athlete, TV announcer)

Xu Wenqiu (Sichuan peasant)

Yale romanization system of Chinese

Yalu River Broken Bridge

Yang Jun (Nanjing worker)

Yang Shulin “Driver Yang” (Beijing cab driver)

author’s search for Beijing Olympic Games sites and

Yangtze River civilizations

Yangtze Valley Authority

Yang Xizhang (Old Yang)

on life and work of Chen Mengjia

Yellow River Valley, Chinese civilization and

Yin Binyong (linguistic scholar), author’s interview with, regarding reform of Chinese writing system

Yongle (Ming emperor)

You Can’t Control My Life
(Miao Yong)

Yuan dynasty (1279--1368)

Yuan Shikai (president of Chinese republic)

Yuan Xiaoyuan (poet), Wang Jun’s criticism of

Yugoslavia, 1990s war in

Yunnan province

Zero Distance
(Wenzhou television program)

Zhang Lianzhong (education official), on Chinese government’s plan for English-language education

Zhang Xuexian (Anyang landowner)

Zhang Yimou (film director)

Zhao, Edward C. T.

Zhao Baohong (peasant tourguide)

Zhao Jingxin (Old Mr. Zhao)

on Chen Mengjia

destruction of Beijing courtyard house belonging to

family history

Ming dynasty furniture belonging to Chen Mengjia and Lucy Chao, and role of

sister Lucy Chao

Zhao Wei (actor)

Zhejiang province, economic development in

Zhou dynasty (1122--256
B.C
.)

bronzes of

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Fengmin (Xituogu village voter)

Zhou Youguang (linguistic scholar)

author’s interview with, regarding reform of Chinese writing system

Zhuhai, Guangdong province

Zhu Jiqiu

Zhu Rongji

Zhu Yunfeng (Emily’s boyfriend)

Zhu Zonghan (Beijing Sanitation Bureau)

Zuo Tongtang (Qing general)

About the Author

PETER HESSLER is the Beijing correspondent for
The New Yorker
and a contributor to
National Geographic
. He is the author of
River Town
.

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Credits

Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich

Jacket photograph © ChinaFotoPress

Map courtesy of Angela Hessler. “Outline of Ancient Chinese History” courtesy of Nanjing University Press. Illustrations courtesy of Ho Wei. Oracle bone rubbings on pages 136 and 250 are reproduced from David N. Keightley’s
Sources of Shang History.

ORACLE BONES.
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