Oracle Bones (82 page)

Drew, Nancy (author’s former student)

author’s visits with Willy and

pregnancy of

relationship with, and marriage to “Willy”

teaching jobs held by

visits to Sichuan hometown

Duan Fang (oracle bone collector and Qing diplomat)

Eastern Zhou dynasty

East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).
See also
Uighurs (ethnic group)

East Turkestan Republic.
See also
Uighurs (ethnic group)

Educating Talents School, Yueqing, Zhejiang province

education, Chinese

economic reforms and rural

private schools

Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

elections

author as witness of, in Chinese village of Xituogu

in Taiwan (2001)

Eliot, T. S.

Elphinston, Bob (IOC inspector)

Elvin, Mark

Emily (author’s former student)

boyfriend Anry

boyfriend Zhu Yunfeng

changes career to work with disabled children

employment conditions

as fan of Hu Xiaomei’s radio program

isolation and alienation of

letter to Country Music Association from

migration of, to Shenzhen

parents and brother of

response of, to author’s article about her

response of, to Miao Yong novel

Shenzhen social issues and

on sister’s decision to migrate

visits with author

English language

Chinese government plan for study of

development of individuality and self-confidence through study of

reform of written

Special English

VOA broadcasts in China

English-language instruction

corruption in examination system related to

private schools for

Esperanto language

ETIM.
See
East Turkestan Islamic Movement

Export Processing Zones

Falun Gong (Falun Dafa)

government ban on

human rights abuses against

origin and principles of

Tiananmen Square demonstrations organized by

famine in China, early 1960s

fangyan
(dialects)

The Fifth Great Civilization
(Xu Chaolong)

film industry, Chinese

author’s interviews with actor and director Jiang Wen

author’s visit to Xinjiang movie set

film directed by Jiang Wen,
Devils on the Doorstep

in Reform and Opening era

Uighurs and Kazaks as actors in

films

American

importance of, to American culture

of Reform and Opening era

videos and DVDs of 9/11 terrorist attacks

“fixers”

Flaming Mountains

Flying Horse of Wuwei

former students, author’s

D.J.

Emily

Freeman

Jimmy

Nancy Drew [
see
Drew, Nancy (author’s former student)]

Shirley

Willy [
see
Foster, William Jefferson “Willy” (author’s former student)]

Formosa.
See
Taiwan

Forney, Matt

Foster, William Jefferson “Willy” (author’s former student)

adjustment problems of, as migrant

author observes English class taught

author’s visits with Nancy and

birth of

birth of daughter Dai Yuecan

on corruption, crime, and cheating on exams

education of

English study, and notebook entries

exposure of local English-exam corruption by

family and Sichuan home village of

letters to author from

listens to Voice of America

migration by, to east coast

on prejudice against migrant workers

relationship with, and marriage to “Nancy Drew”

his students’ performance and exam leaks

teaching jobs held by, in Zhejiang province

on terrorist attacks against U.S.

visits home to Sichuan by

wins English-teaching contest

free-market reforms.
See
Reform and Opening policies

Fujian province, emigration from

Fuling Teachers College, Sichuan province

Galambos, Imre (scholar)

his Web site sales of Chinese characters to Westerners

on importance of movies to American culture

on importance of written language to Chinese culture

on relationship of language to perceived reality

work as curator of Dunhuang manuscripts at British Library

games, Chinese

GANEFO (Games of the Newly Emerging Forces)

Gansu province

film industry in

Gao Xingjian (writer)

Gates, Bill

passage on English exam about

Gates, Melinda

General Tao Chicken

geography, Chinese history and significance of

globalism

Gobi Desert

Gong Bangxing (dove keeper)

Gong Li (actor)

Gore, Al (U.S. vice president)

Great Leap Forward economic policies

Great Wall

author’s camping trip to, and subsequent police detention

Greece, concept of hero in ancient

Guang’an, Sichuan province

guannei
and
guanwai
(within and beyond the gates)

Guo, Xiansheng (engineer)

Guomindang.
See
Kuomintang government

Guo Moruo (poet), rediscovery of Flying Horse figure and

Hainan Island

Han Chinese (ethnic group)

migration of, into Xinjiang

Han dynasty (202
B.C
.--
A.D
. 220)

Han Jingdi (Han emperor)

Hanyu Da Cidian
, index for

Hao, Lady, tomb of

Heaney, Seamus

Hebei province, film
Devils on the Doorstep
set in

He Huixian (executive)

Helms, Jesse, as ally of Uighurs

He Ping (film director)

Hero
(film)

hero concept in Western and Chinese cultures

Hessler, Peter (author)

as
Boston Globe
stringer

camping trip to Great Wall and police detention of

on Chinese and American cultural similarities

criticism of Western media by

former students of (
see
former students, author’s)

homes in Beijing

job at
Wall Street Journal
Beijing bureau

legal status of

press role of, accompanying Olympics inspection committee

publication of first book

teaching at Fuling Teachers College held by

on teaching versus writing

on U.S. after 9/11 terrorist attacks

on work as journalist

writing assignment on cornstarch industry

Historical Records
(Sima Qian)

history, Chinese view of

oracle bones and

Hong Kong SAR

telecasts from

Hong Kong Standard
(newspaper)

horses

in Chinese art

in Chinese culture

problems with, on Chinese movie set

Yin Binyong on, as most important animal in Chinese culture

Hou Chia Chuang (The Ying-Shang Cemetery Site at Anyang, Honan), Volume X
(Shih)

Huang Xu (husband of former student Shirley)

Huang Zhe (wife of Zhao Jingxin)

Huan River

Hu Jintao (Chinese vice president)

Hundred Flowers Campaign (1957)

Hundred Talents High School, Yuhuan, Zhejiang province

hunting in China

hutong
neighborhoods, Beijing

Hu Xiaomei (radio host)

author’s interview with

Emily’s phone call to

industry in China, labor-intensive light

Institute of Archaeology, Chinese

Institute of History and Philology, Taiwan

International Olympic Committee (IOC)

organization and history of

site inspections in Beijing

In the Heat of the Sun
(film)

Iraq

Islam

Jackson, Jesse

Japan

Chinese film on World War II occupation by

Manchukuo puppet state established by

occupation of Beijing by

occupation of Nanjing, and atrocities committed by

political control of Taiwan by

removal of oracle bones to Taiwan during war with

Japanese people and language

Jeldres, Julio A.

Jenks, Jeremiah W.

Jesuits in China

Jews

jiade
(“fake”).
See also
counterfeit goods and services (
jiade
)

Jiang Wen (actor, film director)

author’s interviews with

Devils on the Doorstep
film directed by

on Xinjiang movie set

Jiang Zemin (Chinese president)

George W. Bush state visit to China and