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by Solomon, Andrew


  ———. “Chinese artist recounts his life, including the one time he painted ‘X’ on Mao’s face.” Washington Post, June 2, 2014.

  ———. “Taiwan’s ‘white shirt army,’ spurred by Facebook, takes on political parties.” Washington Post, November 11, 2013.

  Watts, Jonathan. “Brazil: Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man.” Guardian, October 2, 2013.

  ———. “Rio Olympics linked to widespread human rights violations, report reveals.” Guardian, December 8, 2015.

  ———. “Rio police tackle favelas as World Cup looms.” Guardian, June 10, 2013.

  Wax, Emily. “Rwandans are struggling to love children of hate.” Washington Post, March 28, 2004.

  Westcott, Lucy. “Gay refugees addresses [sic] U.N. Security Council in historic meeting on LGBT rights.” Newsweek, August 25, 2015.

  Winata, S., et al. “Congenital non-syndromal autosomal recessive deafness in Bengkala, an isolated Balinese village.” Journal of Medical Genetics 32 (1995): 336–43.

  Winterbottom, Tom. “The tragedy of the Maracanã Stadium.” Rio On Watch, June 13, 2014.

  World Bank. “Ease of doing business in Rwanda.” World Bank, 2015.

  ———. “Poverty continued to decline, falling from 27.4 percent in 2012 to 21.6 percent in 2014.” World Bank, July 1, 2015.

  ———. “Rwanda overview.” World Bank, October 6, 2015.

  ———. “World Bank, Govt. of Solomon Islands launch two new projects towards improved power supply, disaster & climate resilience.” World Bank, April 1, 2014.

  World Health Organization. “Mental health atlas 2011: Cambodia.” Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, 2011.

  ———. “WHO country cooperation strategy for Mongolia 2010–2015.” World Health Organization, 2010.

  ———. “WHO mental health atlas 2011: Senegal.” Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, 2011.

  Worth, Robert F. “An American aid worker is killed in her line of duty.” New York Times, April 18, 2005.

  Wullschager, Jackie. “No more Chinese whispers.” Financial Times, October 2, 2004.

  Xinhua News Agency. “Former Mongolian president jailed for four years.” CRI English, August 3, 2012.

  Xu, Angela. “China’s digital powered foodie revolution.” Lab Brand, January 6, 2015.

  Yanagizawa, David. “Propaganda and conflict: Theory and evidence from the Rwandan genocide.” Dissertation, Stockholm University, 2009.

  Yin Pumin. “Probing ancient mysteries.” Beijing Review, December 7, 2009.

  Zaccardi, Nick. “President of company preparing Rio for Olympics resigns.” NBC Sports, April 1, 2014.

  Zaiman, Jonathan. “Remembering Moses Samuels, the man who preserved Jewry in Myanmar.” Tablet, June 2, 2015.

  Zhong Nan. “China has a healthy appetite for food imports.” China Daily, March 2, 2015.

  Zhu Linyong. “Art on the move.” China Daily, January 25, 2010.

  Zilkha, Bettina. “Andrew Solomon named President of PEN.” Forbes, March 5, 2015.

  “Zuma, Marikana painting pulled from Jo’burg Art Fair.” Mail & Guardian, September 27, 2013.

  Zway, Suliman Ali, and Carlotta Gall. “Libyan factions reject unity government plan.” New York Times, October 20, 2015.

  Index

  A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

  Absolutely Fabulous (TV), 214

  abstract expressionism, 152

  Abu Ghraib, 350

  ACCEPT (Romanian gay-rights organization), 437, 440

  Acer America, 184, 195, 202

  Aegis Trust, 305

  Aeschylus, 214

  Afghanistan:

  after the Taliban, 269–85

  artistic community in, 270–72, 273–74, 276, 284–85

  author’s friends in, 38–39

  Contemporary Art Prize in, 284

  culture destroyed in, 29, 271–72

  dinner party in, 280–83

  ethnic groups in, 278–79, 461

  filmmakers in, 275–77

  music in, 277–80

  poets in, 274–75

  rebuilding, 272–73

  Soviet invasion of, 6, 11, 272, 275, 460

  Taliban in, 28, 38, 270–75, 278, 279–80, 460, 461

  television in, 272–73, 278

  update, 283–84

  women in, 27–28, 271, 276, 277, 284

  Africa:

  antisodomy laws in, 35

  gay people in, 431

  “native art” in, 146

  tourism in, 23, 227

  transitional societies in, 249

  see also specific nations

  African National Congress (ANC), 142, 148, 151, 157, 162–64, 175

  Agili, Hasan, 35, 39, 335, 356

  Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif, 326, 345

  Ainslie, Bill, 152

  Ai Weiwei, 103, 129, 137, 138, 139–40

  Akhlaqi, Ali, 284

  Alborough, Alan, 146

  Alexander, Jane, 151

  Alexander the Great, 215, 217, 271

  Alexandrova, Avdotja, 98

  Alexeev, Nikita, 13

  Al-Fateh, 340

  Al Jazeera, 341

  Alkikli, Omar, 335

  al-Qaeda, 272, 325, 460

  Al Shams (The Sun), Libya, 327, 339

  Alston, Philip, 409

  Alvarez, A., 250

  Amach, Sanga, 284

  Amazon rainforest, 425

  Amin, Idi, 335

  Amnesty International, 356, 426, 427

  Amos, Howard, 177

  Ando, Tadao, 288, 289, 290, 291

  André, Marcus, 414–15

  Antarctica, 385–96

  ban on polar mining in, 396

  blue snow of, 394

  Chinese research stations on, 396

  icebergs of, 393–94

  krill harvesting at, 396

  new fungi in, 396

  oil and mineral resources of, 396

  pack ice of, 388–95

  penguins of, 396

  Shackleton Centennial Expedition to, 385

  update, 395–96

  vulnerability of, 385

  Antarctic Circle, crossing of, 388

  Antarctic Treaty, 396

  Anufriev, Sergey, 47, 48

  Arab Spring, 448, 449

  Arakan (Rakhine) State, 459, 461–63

  author’s visit to, 464–68

  Araujo, Cleber, 426

  Argumenty i Fakty, 72

  Aris, Michael, 456

  armaments, development of, 41

  Arman (Hope), 274

  art:

  for art’s sake, 152

  auction world of, 53

  commercial expectations of, 13, 54–55, 56, 112

  conceptual, 144, 206

  and controversy, 176, 181, 186

  and craft, 144–45, 146, 165, 207, 284

  cultural vocabulary of, 186

  as entertainment, 13, 46–47

  figurative painting, 111

  formalism, 135

  interpretation of, 185–86

  minimalism, 135

  modernism, 135

  painted miniatures, 273

  performance art, 47, 76–77, 137, 210, 284

  and politics, 15, 140, 162–64, 184–85, 191, 210

  power to change the world, 13, 152

  and protectionism, 184, 196

  purposes of, 14, 15, 54, 56

  purposes of museums, 189

  radical form in, 109

  realist, 108, 125

  trompe l’oeil, 380

  and truth, 56, 59

  visual, 148

  Asefi, Yousof, 270, 273�
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  Asian democracies, US support of, 185

  Atatürk, Kemal, 337

  Athens, Olympics in, 416

  Attiga, Giumma, 335

  Augustine of Hippo, 16

  Aung Kyaw Naing, 479

  Aung Min, 467

  Aung San, 451, 455, 475

  Aung San Suu Kyi, 37, 443–44, 446, 447, 454–58, 476, 479

  background of, 455–56

  and elections, 455, 456–58, 462, 475, 482

  and ethnic groups, 461, 462

  The Voice of Hope, 453

  Australia, 483–92

  Aye Ko, 446

  Aye Lwin, 463, 468

  Azerbaijan, organized crime in, 87–88

  Baggio, Rodrigo, 415–16

  Bahkstein, Josif, 64, 67

  Bailey, Beezy, 147, 166, 169

  Balanchine, George, 300

  Baldwin, James, Giovanni’s Room, 81

  Bali, clan system in, 398

  Baloyi, Vincent, 155

  Bangladesh, 458, 465, 481

  Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia, 222–24

  Bank for International Settlements, 347

  Barcelona, Olympics in, 416

  Barker, Wayne, 147

  Bashir, Omar al-, 339

  Bastos Marques, Maria Silvia, 416, 418

  Bastrykin, Alexander, 100

  Baywatch (TV), 17

  BBC, 130, 177

  Bebe Scott (nanny), 3–4

  Begalov, Yuri, 84–85, 97

  Beijing:

  ear massage in, 369

  food in, 367–69

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

  Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness, 383

  Qianlong Garden in, 373–84

  Beijing Independent Film Festival, 136

  Beltrame, José Mariano, 410–14

  Benesse Art Site, 288–91

  Benesse Island, Japan, 287–91

  Art House Projects, 290

  Chichu Museum, 291

  Benghazi, Libya, 345, 352–53, 356

  Bengkala, Bali:

  alcohol abuse in, 402

  deafness in, 397–405

  government of, 398

  Ben-Gurion, David, 468

  Berlusconi, Silvio, 348

  Bermuda, map of, 49

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 423

  Bester, Willie, 156–58

  Bi Mon Te Nay, 479

  bin Laden, Osama, 325, 347

  Birch, James, 126

  Birman, Yevgeny, 73–74, 78

  Bisgaard, Poul, 251–52

  Bite of China, A (TV), 370

  Black, Robert, QC, 346

  Blair, Gavin, 219–27

  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

  languag
e 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

  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

 

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