The River at the Centre of the World (51 page)

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