Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Jakobshavn Glacier, 259

James, Roger, 294–96

Jansen, Jonathan, 176

Januário, Márcio, 427–28

Japan, Benesse Art Site in, 287–91

Jason, Stefanie, 176

Jessica (friend), 294, 298, 300

Jiang Wen, 123–24

Jianyi, Geng, 361

Jobim, Antônio Carlos (Tom), 424–25

Joburg Art Fair, 176

Joelson, Amalia, 254, 256–58

Johannesburg Art Foundation, 152, 153

Johansen, Karen, 254–58

John, Elton, 51, 53

John Paul, Pope, 18

Johns, Jasper, White Alphabets, 289

Johnson, Samuel, 25

Johnson, Scott, 281, 282

Johnson, Tom, 212, 214, 216

Judd, Donald, 287

Jung, Carl, Mysterium Coniunctionis, 40

Kabakov, Ilya, 53

Man Who Described His Life Through Characters, 50

Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, 50

Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, 50

Kabinet, 77–78

Kafue National Park, Zambia, 226

Kagame, Paul, 305, 306, 307, 319

Kalimba, Célestin, 310

Kamran, Baktash, 278

Kangerlussuaq ice fjord, 252–53

Kangxi Emperor, 377

Kanta (teacher), 398–401

Karzai, Hamid, 270, 271

Kasanka National Park, Zambia, 225

Kasparov, Garry, 102

Kata Kolok sign language, 398–401, 405

Katsuba, Valera, 81, 97

Katz, Max, 102

“kayak anxiety,” 255

Kazakhstan, nomads in, 16–17

Kebyar (Balinese woman), 402–3

Kennedy, John F., 162

Kentridge, William, 149–50, 171, 173–74

Kesyar (Balinese woman), 403

KGB (Russian intelligence agency), 12, 54, 63, 99

Khademi, Kubra, 284

Khan, Altan, 238

Khan, A. Q., 347

Khan, Genghis, 272

khanqah (Afghan holy building), 278

Khin Kyi, 455–56

Khmer Rouge, 230–32, 468

Khövsgöl Lake National Park, Mongolia, 244–46

Khrushchev, Nikita, 47, 61, 334

King, Alice, 128

Kirill, Patriarch, 99

Kiselev, Aleksandr A., 90, 91–92, 97

Kisevalter, Georgi, 47

Klimov, Andrei, 57

Klimova, Yelena, 99

Koloane, David, 145, 147–48, 152, 158, 173

Ko Minn Latt, 446, 453, 470

Kopystiyanskaya, Svetlana, 53

Korea, elections in, 455

Kostromin, Sergey, 98

Kounellis, Jannis, 289

Krylov, Romuald, 89

Kuan Kuan, 191

Ku Klux Klan, 37

Kuksinaite, Irina, 78, 79, 86

Kurlyandtseva, Lena, 64

Kusa, Musa, 326

Kusama, Yayoi, 290

Kuzmin, Dmitry, 99

Kvant International, 84

Kyi Zaw Lwin, 469

Kyrgyzstan, gay men entrapped by police in, 35

Lake Iteshi-Teshi, Zambia, 226

Lalae (yacht), 298–301

Lange, Amelia, 254–55, 256–58

Lantos, Tom, 349

Lao Li (Li Xianting), 126, 128, 136

on categories of Chinese art, 110

and Chinese avant-garde, 106–8, 119, 127, 131

and Fine Arts in China, 109

and Gaudy Art, 135

influence of, 107, 122

moral purpose of, 107, 134

and Yan’s lawsuit, 133, 134

Lauder, Leonard, 329

Lazarus, Emma, 37

Leblon Beach, Rio de Janeiro, 408

Lee, Lily, 208

Lee Teng-hui, 187, 197, 206

Lee Yulin, 206, 208–9, 291

Legae, Ezrom, 145

Leidermann, Yuri, 63

Lenin, V. I., 50, 102, 151, 175, 246

Leonardo da Vinci, 125

Leshan Grand Buddha, 367

letting go, 44

LGBT issues, see gay people; gay rights

Libya, 7, 321–57

atrocities against gay people in, 35–36

Basic People’s Congresses in, 322, 337–39, 354

Bulgarian nurses in, 334–35, 348

chaos in, 29, 355, 356–57

Circle of Fire in, 354–56

corruption in, 343–44

economy of, 321–22, 330–31, 333, 341–43, 345, 353, 354

fundamentalism in, 325, 331, 349, 352

Green Square in Tripoli, 331–32

growing population of, 331

isolation of, 34

Italian occupation of (1912–43), 324, 353

literacy rate in, 333

National Oil Company in, 326, 330, 341, 348

and nuclear weapons, 347

oil in, 321, 333, 341–43, 348

possibility of democracy in, 327, 336–37, 350

poverty in, 333

prisons in, 334–35

social life in, 350–51, 355

student visas to people from, 39

surveillance in, 336

television in, 341

and terrorist groups, 346–47, 348, 354

travel to, 327–29

tribal structure in, 327, 337, 343, 355

update, 356–57

US and UN sanctions against, 326, 341, 346, 348

US relations with, 345–50, 354

women in, 334, 351

Libyan Islamic Brotherhood, 357

Libyan Publishers’ League, 322

Libyan Writers’ League, 335

Lichtenstein, Roy, 109

Lithuania, Jewish State Museum in, 24, 500

Lithur, Nana Oye, 430

Litichevsky, Zhora, 55

Litvinenko, Alexander, 100

Liu Anping, 121–22

Liulin Wei, 203

Liu Shenli, 396

Liu Wei, 111

Li Wenzi, 136

Li Xianting, see Lao Li

Locke, John, 323

Lockerbie air crash, 322, 326, 346, 347, 348

Long, Richard, 289

Longtime Companion (film), 81

Lord of the Flies (film), 473

Louis XIV, king of France, 376

Louvre Museum, Paris, 194, 375

Lucy (Xhosa bead worker), 144–45

Lugar, Richard, 349

Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 410, 416, 421

Lu Maw, 446

Lumpen modeling agency, 98

Luna, Cíntia, 421

Lusaka, Zambia, 225

Lu Shengzhong, 131

Luzhkov, Yuri, 97

Lycia, Turkey, 213–14

Lynge, Sara, 257

Mabasa, Noria, 166–67

Ma Ba Tha (Burmese Buddhist political group), 480–81

Mabulu, Ayanda, 176

Macartney-Snape, Sue, 485, 486, 489, 492

Mack, David, 348, 349

Macquarie Island, 387–88

Ma Desheng, 108

Maelaua, Wilson, 294

Magadlela, Fikile, 159

Maghur, Azza, 349–50

Magkoeva, Isabelle, 102

Mahama, John Dramani, 429–33

My First Coup d’État, 429

Mahmoudi, Baghdadi al-, 354

Makarevich, Andrei, 98

Makarov, Andrey, 101

Makoba, Trevor, 159–60

Malange, Nise, 164

Malaurie, Jean, 255–56

Ma Liuming, 137

Mamyshev-Monroe, Vladik, 74, 97

Manaka, Matsemela, 158

Manchu Qing dynasty, 376, 379, 381