Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Blair, Marjorie, 220–27

Blair, Tony, 27, 348

Blignaut, Belinda, 146

Bobrova, Yelena, 102

Boltanski, Christian, Les Archives du Coeur, 291

Bolton, John, 348

Bonaparte, Napoléon, 5, 57

Bonnet, Catherine, 308

Borit, Misuu, 457, 463–64, 477–78

Botha, Andries, 150–51

Botswana:

elephants in, 23–24

travel in, 219

Botticelli, Sandro, 125

Bouazizi, Mohamed, 448

Bowman, Vicky, 446, 474

Bo Xiaobo, 128

Brady, Anne-Marie, 396

Brâncuşi, Constantin, Endless Column, 287

Brasília, capital of Brazil, 409

Bratskii Krug, 100

Brazil, 407–28

democracy in, 415, 421

dictatorship in, 418, 421, 422

economy of, 407, 415–17

inequality in, 409

models in, 423

NGOs in, 422

and offshore oil, 407

rainforest in, 425

see also specific cities

Bremmer, Ian, 101

Brezhnev, Leonid, 45–46, 47, 61, 92

Bronya, Pani, 76, 97

Brown, David J., 150

Bruskin, Grisha, 52

Buckingham Palace, 374

Buddha, living, 381

Buddhism:

born in India, 459

Chan, 381

ideal of pure nature, 378, 381

idea of forgiveness, 453

monasteries, 288, 449–50

religious structures of, 466

Theravada, 450, 459, 462, 465, 480, 481

Tibetan, 381–82

Buhuceanu, Florin, 437, 440

Bulatov, Erik, 57

Bulgaria, travel in, 6–7, 25

Burma, 450–51

Communists in, 469

see also Myanmar

Burmese cats, 478

Burnett, Ricky, 171

Bush, George H. W., 347

Bush, George W., 27, 90, 326, 347–48, 437

Butcher, Duane, 440

Cahill, James, 201

Cai Guo-Qiang, 103

Cultural Melting Bath, 290

Golden Missile, 210

Calder, Alexander, 290

Cambodia:

civil war in, 229–31

depression in, 229–35

Future Light Orphanage in, 231, 235

Khmer medicine in, 233

Khmer Rouge in, 230–32, 468

mental health in, 235

Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 344

Cameroon, homosexuality punished in, 35

Camp, S. Talcott, 23

Campbell Island, 384

Cao Fei, 135–36

Cardiff, Janet, 291

Carol I, king of Romania, 437

Cărtărescu, Mircea, 436, 440–41

Carvalho, José, 410–11

Caryl, Christian, 16–17

Casé, Regina, 425

Castiglione, Giuseppe (“Lang Shining”), 380

Castro, Fidel, 18

Catherine the Great, 5, 376

Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 6, 119

Cele, Alois, 156

censorship:

in China, 36–37, 104, 175

in Myanmar, 443, 451, 461, 470–73, 479–80, 481

and PEN, 36–37

in Russia, 57–58, 97, 98, 175

in South Africa, 175–76

Central Academy, Beijing, 108, 131

Central House of Artists, Moscow, 85–86

Cernea, Remus, 440, 441

Cézanne, Paul, 185, 213

Chang, Johnson, 120

Chang, K. C., Food in Chinese Culture, 363

change, unexpected effects of, 28–30

Chang Lin-sheng, 182, 190, 194, 198

Charles, Prince of Wales, 213

Chechnya, organized crime in, 100

Chekhov, Anton, 11, 67

Chengdu, China, food in, 366–67

Chen Guang, 137

Chen Hui-chiao, 208

Chen Shaoping, 113

Chen Shih-meng, 198

Chen Yifei, 125

Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 11

Chiang Kai-shek, 183, 184, 188, 190, 197–98, 468

China:

advanced civilization in, 128–29

and Antarctica, 396

art of, see Chinese art

Buddhism in, 381

censorship in, 36–37, 104, 175

Communism in, 134, 188, 359, 360, 375

criticism of government punished in, 138

cultural heritage of, 375

Cultural Revolution, 28–29, 108, 113, 119–24, 139, 162, 193, 230, 468

Democracy Wall movement, 108, 111, 121, 123

food in, 359–71

Forbidden City in, 187, 188, 373–76, 378, 383

Great Wall, 375

hierarchical society of, 106

housing in, 117–18

Hygiene Campaign (1991), 117

idealism in, 119, 123

imperial rulers of, 375, 381, 382

intelligentsia in, 105

international trade of, 376

Internet use in, 138–39

language in, 128–29

last emperor (Pu Yi) of, 188, 376

life in, 29

and Myanmar, 449, 458, 476

nationalism in, 131, 192, 197, 247

New Policy in, 186

Olympic Games in, 126, 139

pollution in, 370

possibility of democracy in, 105, 121–22, 134

Qianlong Garden in, 373–84

radical individualism in, 105, 113–15, 134, 136–40

Red Guards in, 120, 124

and reunification, 202–4, 206

ruling the world, 132

Sichuan earthquake (2008), 139

social change in, 360

and Taiwan, 184, 185, 195, 196–98, 205, 206

Tiananmen Square, 26, 109, 110, 115, 121–22, 123, 137, 138, 374, 448

tradition of conformity in, 105, 112, 113, 121, 131, 134, 139

two camps in, 141

updates, 135–40, 369–71

Warring States period (475–221 BC), 378

Western exhibitions in, 125–28

Chinati Foundation, Texas, 287

Chinese art, 103–39

abroad, 129

artist harassment and lawsuit, 132–34, 137

avant-garde, 105, 106–8, 109–10, 113–17, 118–23, 124, 125, 127, 131

brush-and-ink painting, traditional, 108, 112–13, 124–25, 128, 206

calligraphy, 187, 199–203, 378

categories of, 110

collections of, 186–88

contemporary, 135–40

Cynical Realism, 110–12, 118, 135, 140

and emphasis on past, 202

Gaudy Art, 135, 140

guohua styles, 125, 128

hidden meanings in, 138–39, 186, 205, 272, 378

Imperial Collection, 187–89, 192, 203, 379

Japanese influence on, 380

landscape paintings, 186, 378, 379

literati (scholar-artist ink painting), 108, 290, 379

moved to Taiwan (1949), 183, 185, 188, 198

New Revolutionaries, 119, 129

“No U-turn” symbol in, 109–10

official crackdown on, 136–40

paper cutting, 131

performance art, 137

Political Pop, 110, 112, 118, 475

Post-’89 influence on, 111, 112, 113, 115, 118–19, 122

as propaganda vehicle, 140

realism, 108, 125