Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Tang dynasty, 187, 193

Tang Hsiao-li, 190

Tang Jianying, 139

Tatlin, Vladimir, 289

Monument to the Third International, 75

Tchenogramme (pseud.), 207

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 16

Teresa, Mother, 127

terrorism, effects of, 38–39

Teshima Island, 291

Thant Myint-U, 447, 450, 459, 463, 469, 470

Thant Thaw Kaung, 456, 471

Thaton, reclining Buddha at, 466

Thein Sein, 448, 454, 455, 481

Thurber, James, 223

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Hans Heinrich von, 50

Tiananmen Square, 122, 138, 374

Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), 26, 109, 110, 121–22, 137

post-’89 influence of, 111, 112, 113, 115, 119, 122

Tibet, Buddhists in, 459

Tierney, Dominic, 283–84

Timin, Rose (great-aunt), 435–36, 439, 441

Tin Win Win (Ju), 471

Titomir, Bogdan, 79

Tolstoy, Leo, 96

Toscanini, Arturo, 422–23

tourism:

disaster tourism, 385

travel vs., 17, 23

Transparency International, 343

Travel + Leisure, 32, 219, 237, 287, 293, 359, 385, 407, 443

travel:

with children, 42–43

and death, 44

decontextualized essence in, 20–23

engagement and reciprocity in, 18–19

expectations in, 20, 22

legacy of, 43

new perspectives gained in, 25–26

observation vs. engagement in, 17–18, 23

political importance of, 25–28

and storytelling, 24

time stopped in, 16

tourism vs., 17, 23

Tremlett, David, 289

Troitsky, Artyom, 64–65, 79, 96, 97

Trudeau, Justin, 41

Trump, Donald, 39, 127

Tsaatan (Mongolian shamanists), 245–46

Tsinghua University, Cultural Heritage Conservation Center, 384

Tsong Pu, 208

Tsu Ming, 207

Tunisia, and Arab Spring, 448

Tun Win Aung, 475

Tupelo Workshops, Johannesburg, 152

Turkey, sailing adventure in, 211–17

Turkina, Olesya, 78

Turrell, James, 287, 290, 291

Tuyisenge, Clémence, 315

Twombly, Cy, 289

Udaltsov, Sergei, 102

Ufan, Lee, 291

Uganda, homosexuality a capital offense in, 35

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 33–34, 237, 238, 244, 246, 247

UNESCO, 281, 282, 300

Intangible Cultural Heritage List, 247, 370

World Heritage Sites, 247, 301–2

UNICEF, 449

United Arab Emirates, 343–44

United Nations (UN):

and Brazil, 418, 419

Convention against Torture, 335

on extrajudicial executions, 409

and human rights, 480

on LGBT issues, 34

and Libya, 340–41, 346, 357

and Myanmar, 480

and Rwanda, 306

and South Africa, 148

and Taiwan, 207

UN-HABITAT, 419

Urani, André, Rio: The Turning Point, 415

Urbach, Erika, 4

Urodov, Andrey, 98

USSR, 45–58

art of, see Soviet art

bureaucracy of, 61

Communist system in, 89, 91–92, 93, 94

elusiveness in, 54

end of Soviet Union, 448

glasnost in, 30, 45, 50, 65, 126, 448

Gorbachev resignation in, 59–60; see also Gorbachev, Mikhail

gulag in, 66

ideology in, 95

invasion of Afghanistan by, 6, 11, 272, 275, 460

irony in, 14, 54, 61, 65

KGB in, 12, 54, 63, 99

Komsomol in, 91

people’s resistance (1991) in, 13, 61–69

perestroika in, 49, 90, 93

and revolution (1917), 30

Stalin years in, 14, 54

two camps in, 141

underground rock musicians, 64–65

Utopia (zine), 98

Uwamahoro, Christine, 317–19

U Win Htein, 481

van Graan, Mike, 143, 162

Venda, South Africa, 164–73

Venice Biennale, 149, 159–60, 176

Versace, Gianni, 382

Vickers, Sveta, 74–75

Vietnam, travel to, 22

Vietnam War, 2, 22–23, 468

Vinogradov, Garik, 76, 77, 97

Virginia (Xhosa bead worker), 144–45

Vittrup Christensen, Erik, 419

Voina (Russian “art-anarch-punk gang”), 57

Volkov, Sergei, 80, 86

Vorotnikov, Oleg, 57

Wah Nu, 475

Waihuru, John, 295

Wandering Jew, legend of, 2

Wang Guangyi, 112

Wang Jiaqi, 133–34

Wang Jinsong, 111

Wang Luyan, 113

Wang Peng, 137

Wang Yin, 128

Wang Zang, 138–39

Warhol, Andy, 148

war on terror, 322, 325, 348

Waste Land (film), 424

Watt, James C. Y., 191–92

Waugh, Evelyn, 214

Western art:

aggressiveness of, 128

Chinese emulation of, 108, 109

Chinese exhibitions of, 125–31

Chinese influence on, 381

commercial expectations of, 13, 55, 56, 112

contemporary, 108, 127

forward focus of, 202

influence of, 210, 287

mixing Chinese art and, 125, 131–32, 135, 210

Western artists, egotism of, 114

Westminster Classic Tours, 212

Williamson, Sue, 149, 160, 161

Willis, Graham Denyer, 414

Wilson, Robert, 97

Win Min, 468, 470

Wirathu, Ashin, 460, 461, 481

Wolf, John, 34

World Bank, 303, 319, 348

World Monuments Fund (WMF), 373, 383

World War I, 448

World War II, 2, 5, 188, 294, 301–2

Burma in, 450–51

Wu Tien-chang, Portrait as a Sailor, 209

Wu Wenguang, 124

Wu Yuren, 138

Wu Zhen, 201

xenophobia, 39, 122

Xi’an, China, nightlife in, 21–22

Xi Jinping, 137, 139

Xu Bing, 129, 139

Xu Hong, 130

Yang Feiyun, 125

Yanghee Lee, 480

Yang Shaobin, 118–19

Yang Xu, 119–20

Yang Yiping, 123

Yangzhou gardens, 378

Yan Zhengxue, 132–34, 137

Yashin, Ilya, 102

Yasuda, Kan, Secret of the Sky, 289

Yeltsin, Boris, 61–62, 63, 64, 66, 71, 91–96, 98

Yin Myo Su, see Borit, Misuu

Yokoo, Teshima, 291

Yongzheng Emperor, 382

Younge, Gavin, 150

Yousefzada, Munera, 284

Yuan dynasty, 193, 201

Yuanmingyuan (artists’ village), China, 118–19, 128, 131, 132–34, 136, 137

Yue Minjun, 118–19, 135–36, 140

Execution, 135

Yugoslavia, former, 470

Yu Youhan, 112, 120

Zacchi, José Maria, 409

Zagarev, Viktor, 64

Zaki, Zakia, 284

Zambia, 219–27

Kapishya Hot Springs Lodge in, 221–22

safari in, 220–27