Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

sales of, 135

scrolls, 190

“slender gold” calligraphy, 201

history of, 108–10

Soviet model for, 108

US tour (Chinese Art Treasures, 1961), 188

and Western art, 108, 109, 125, 131–32, 135, 210, 381

Chin Hsiao-yi, 184, 190–91, 193

Chin women, tattoos of, 465

Chirac, Jacques, 348

Chitambo, Chief, 224–25

Chizhov, Georgy, 102

Chopin, Frédéric, 366

Chou Chuan, 191, 192

Chou Hai-sheng, 206

Chou Kung-shin, 203

Christiansen, René Birger, 255

Chuck (friend), 294

Chu Hui-liang, 191, 194

Chu Ko, 191

Chuykov, Ivan:

Fragment of a Fence, 52–53

Noughts and Crosses, 53

CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict), 285

civil partnership, 34

Clements, Alan, 453

Clinton, Bill, 90, 193, 347

My Life, 322

Clinton, Hillary, 356

CNN, 60, 66

Coetzee, J. M., 148

Collective Action Group (K/D), USSR, 46–49, 52

Colombia, sexual identity in, 34

Confucius, 187, 381

Congreve, William, 327

Connoisseur, 45

Conservation International (CI), 294

Conwill, William Louis, 268

Copacabana, 408

Coral Sea, 485

Cosmoscow, 57

Cousteau, Jacques, 484

Crimmins, Pamela, 7–8

crossroads of history, 5–6, 22, 29

Cuba:

autocracy in, 26

celebrations in, 18–19

changes in, 18

cultural dissonance, 20–23, 129–30

cultural exclusion, 39

Cultural Revolution, see China

Daesh (ISIS), 34

Dai Jianyong, 137

Dalai Lama:

coining of the title, 238

and living Buddha, 381

Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama, 429

da Silva Pereira, Douglas Rafael, 426

Dayan, Moshe, 468

deafness, 397–405

Dean I-mei, 207, 208

Made in Hong Kong, 207

De Maria, Walter, 290, 291

democracy:

arrival of, 28–29

as euphemism for capitalism, 95, 185, 327

and freedom, 129

local meanings of the word, 74, 90–91, 93, 105, 121–22, 134, 139, 336–37, 446, 451

de Montebello, Philippe, 184, 187, 192, 193, 195, 196, 202

de Morro Agudo, Dudu, 422

Deng Xiaoping, 29, 105, 134, 375

Denisov, Nikita, 102

depression:

alternative treatments of, 262

and distraction, 233

and learning to forget, 233–34, 235

and learning to love, 234–35

and loneliness, 257

Noonday Demon (Solomon), 32, 36, 211, 229, 249, 261, 435, 436–37

rescue from isolation, 234, 257

and suicide, 250, 257, 258

talking about emotions, 253–54, 256–58

and trust, 234

and working, 234, 235

writing about recovery, 261–62

de Pury, Simon, 50, 51, 52, 53

de Souza, Amarildo, 426

de Wet, Barend, 150

Didenko, Tanya, 66, 75

Ding Fang, 132

Ding Yi, 127, 131

Diouf, Madame, 263–65

diplomacy, 40–42

disability, social constructionist model of, 405

diversity, embracing, 41–42

Djebbar, Maître Saad, 323

Dmitri (ship captain), 389–90, 392–93

Dobrokhotov, Roman, 102

d’Offay, Anthony, 126

Donadio, Mr. (teacher), 5

Drevin, Aleksandr, 50

Duchamp, Marcel, 185

Dumontt, Luiz Carlos, 422

Dupree, Nancy Hatch, 271

Dürer, Albrecht, 124

Ecuador, 8–9

Egypt, homosexuals imprisoned in, 35

ElBaradei, Mohamed, 347

Elkhair, Abdulgader, 343

elsewhere, idea of, 33

Elton, Louise, 6

Enderby Island, 387

enemies from abroad, 41

England:

author’s affection for, 2–5, 10

author’s move to, 10–11

civil partnership in, 34

foreign habits in, 9–10

Enkhbaya, Nambar, 247

Enraizados (Brazilian educational organization), 422

Ernst, Max, 301

escape fantasies, 3, 4

Eskimos, see Inuit peoples

Esquire, 261

Etwebi, Ashur, 355, 356

Eugenia, Unforgettable, 178

Evans, Nicholas, 397

evil:

good vs. evil, 17, 79, 120, 122

of the Holocaust, 1, 306

rape-conceived children considered products of, 309–10

in society, 230, 356, 432

evil spirits, 266

Fakhri, Azim, 284

families, differences within, 39–40

Fang Lijun, 111, 112, 118, 120–21, 133, 136

Fan Kuan, 181, 182, 185, 196

Travelers amid Streams and Mountains, 186, 188, 189, 194, 196

Fan Rong, 137

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (Solomon), 32, 39–40, 305, 397

Farhad, Alam, 284

Farrakhan, Rev. Louis, 340

Faustini, Marcus Vinícius, 417, 420

Feith, Roberto, 410

Feldman, Ronald, 50

Fellows, Sir Charles, 215

Feng Boyi, 137

Feng Mengbo, 122

Fiennes, Susannah, 211, 212–13, 215, 217

Fierau, Genevieve, 437

Fierce Animals (film), 123

Figaro Prize for Humanitarian Service, 231

Filippov, Andrei, 61, 63–65, 66

Fine Arts in China, 109

Fini, Gianfranco, 353

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 493

flat feet, 2, 499

Fluxus, 135

Foh-Amoaning, Moses, 433

Fong, Wen C., 183–84, 188, 191

Beyond Representation, 184

and Met exhibition, 185, 187, 189, 192–95, 200, 202

Possessing the Past, 202

Food & Wine, 269

Foreign Policy in Focus (organization), 348

Forster, E. M., A Passage to India, 25

Four Days in September (film), 422

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 448

Franz Josef, Emperor, 376

freedom, idea of, 26–28

Freedom House, 100–101

French airliner UTA 772, 346

French Revolution, 29

French West Africa, menu in, 21

Friedman, Steven, 175

Frolov, Viktor, 72

Fugard, Athol, 148

Fukutake, Tetsuhiko, 288

Fuller, Buckminster, 301

Gabeira, Fernando, 415, 417, 422

Gable, Clark, 332

Gaffney, Christopher, 414

Gaidar, Yegor, 89

Gainsborough, Thomas, 212