Far and Away: Reporting From the Brink of Change

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by Solomon, Andrew


  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

  Manchuria, Japanese invasion of (1931), 188

  Mandela, Nelson, 142, 152, 158

  Manjusri (bodhisattva), 381

  Mansour, Abdul, 271, 272

  Mao Zedong:

  as art subject, 112, 122, 123

  and Chinese art, 103, 108, 109, 272

  and Cultural Revolution, 119–24, 162

  death of, 120–21

  and “international friends,” 109

  legacy of, 35

  and Revolutionary Model Operas, 122

  Mapplethorpe, Robert, 192

  Maqhubela, Louis, 148

  Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 118, 384

  Marleni (ballerina), 19

  Marrakech, Morocco, 8

  Marsaja, I Gede, 398, 401

  Marshall Plan, 42, 269, 411

  Martin, Marilyn, 144–45, 149

  Masango, Aubrey, 176

  Masekela, Barbara, 142, 146, 174–75

  Mashinee, Abdul Rashin, 280

  Matamura, Marie Rose, 311–12

  Ma Thanegi, 444, 448, 453, 455, 469, 471, 475, 476–77

  Nor Iron Bars a Cage, 476

  Ma Thida, 27, 444–45, 458, 464, 471, 472, 480

  Mathieson, Dave, 479

  Matisse, Henri, 214

  Matlock, Jack F., 51

  Matshoba, Mtutuzeli, 162

  Mattawa, Khaled, 323

  Mattos, Sergio, 423

  Maung Tin Thit, 446, 475–76

  Mautloa, Pat, 145

  Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 78

  Mazin, Viktor, 78

  McCarthyism, 22

  McNamara, Robert S., 22–23

  Medeiros, Luciana, 423

  Medical Hermeneutics movement, 47

  Mediterranean Sea, 211

  Meherzad, Hafiz, 273

  Meishugan (National Art Gallery), Beijing, 108

  China/Avant-Garde exhibit, 109

  Country Life Plan exhibit, 104–5

  Gilbert & George show in, 126–27

  Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, 293–94, 302

  Merkel, Angela, 41

  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 78

  Metropolitan Museum, New York:

  Chinese collection in, 184, 203

  conservation of Asian art in, 193

  and cultural exchange, 192, 203

  exhibition of work from Taipei, 181, 182–83, 184, 185, 189–91, 193–96, 199–203

  King Tut exhibit (1978), 184–85

  Mexico, public protests in, 184

  Michelangelo, 109

  Michener, James, 300

  Miller, George Bures, 291

  Mills, John Atta, 430, 432

  Ming dynasty, 375, 379, 382

  Minghella, Anthony, 361

  Mironenko, Serioja, 64, 65, 66

  Mironenko, Vladimir, 61, 64

  Misiano, Viktor, 55

  Mitchell, Derek, 448, 454, 455, 457, 459, 461, 468

  Mitrofanov, Georgi, 100

  Miyajima, Tatsuo, 290

  Moe Satt, 446–47

  Mokamel, Kabir, 284

  Moletsi, Andrew (pseud.), 147

  Moloudzadeh, Makwan, 35

  Molsami (Balinese woman), 403

  Momba, Willie, 222, 224, 225

  Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 194

  Monastyrsky, Andrei, 47

  Monet, Claude, Water Lilies, 291

  Mongolia, 237–47

  airag (fermented horse milk) in, 239, 240, 243

  Bayanzag Flaming Cliffs in, 243

  camels in, 243

  description of, 238

  elections in, 455

  gay identity in, 33–34

  gers (tent-like structures) in, 238–39, 243–44

  irony in, 246

  and Manchus, 381

  monasteries in, 246

  Naadam celebration in, 239–41

  nomadism in, 242–44, 247

  ortz (tepee) in, 245

  Övörkhangai Province, 241, 242

  reindeer people in, 245–46

  roads in, 241

  shamans in, 245

  as symbol of the remote, 237

  train ride to, 237–38

  yaks in, 241–42

  Monitor Group, 344

  Moriconi, Italo, 409, 414, 423

  Morocco, author’s visit to, 7–8, 9

  Morrison, Toni, 27

  Moscow:

  artists in, 12, 13–15, 48–49, 54–58, 59, 60, 63, 69, 74–75, 85–86

  billionaires in, 98

  change in, 13, 15, 30, 56–58

  First Gagarin party in, 73–74, 80

  life in, 30

  “paper architects” in, 27

  Sotheby’s first sale of Soviet art in, 45, 49–56

  VDNKh, 73, 101

  Moscow Biennale, 57

  Moscow Exchange, 84

  Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 56

  Moth, The, 261, 483

  “mountain wanderer syndrome,” 255

  Mount Wutai, 381

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 22

  Mthembu, Jackson, 175

  Muhammad (prophet), Danish cartoons of, 352

  Muhammad, Abdul Akbar, 340

  Mukamakuza, Alphonsine, 315–17

  Mukam
ana, Espérance, 308

  Mukamana, Marianne, 312–14

  Mukansanga, Beatrice, 311

  Mukasarasi, Godeliève, 308

  Mukhuba, Nelson, 172–73

  Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 56

  Muniz, Vic, 408, 415, 424

  Munyai, Albert Mbudzeni, 169–70

  Murdoch, Rupert, 361

  Murray, Brett, 175–76

  Muslim Brotherhood, 351–52

  Muslims:

  in Myanmar, 458–64, 468, 481

  polygamy among, 460

  see also Islam

  Myanmar, 443–82

  absence of basic services in, 447–48, 451–52, 461, 469

  artists in, 446–47, 474–75

  blogging in, 471–72

  Buddhist majority in, 444, 449, 458–59, 462, 464, 466–68, 481

  censorship in, 443, 451, 461, 470–73, 479–80, 481

  and China, 449, 458, 476

  constitution of, 452, 456, 457–58, 482

  Cyclone Nargis in, 457–58

  economy of, 454, 469

  education in, 451, 452–53

  88 Generation in, 452

  elections in, 443, 454–55, 456–58, 480–82

  ethnic groups in, 451, 453, 458–64, 465, 466–70, 479, 481

  expatriates from, 454, 471–72

  Golden Rock shrine in, 465–66

  government move to Naypyidaw, 450, 453–54

  hope in, 443, 444, 480

  idea of freedom in, 27

  independence of, 444, 451, 455, 468, 469

  individual states in, 469–70

  Inle Lake guesthouse in, 477–79

  international sanctions in, 443, 448–49

  Inthar Heritage House in, 478

  Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in, 466

  laws in, 457, 458, 463, 480

  military junta in, 445–46, 448, 449, 451–52, 453, 455, 464, 465, 469, 472, 477, 481, 482

  national identity in, 459, 463, 470

  Plain of Temples (Bagan), 466–67

  political prisoners in, 443–45, 457, 469, 472–73, 474, 476–77, 481

  political reforms in, 445, 447, 448–49, 472

  possible democracy in, 450, 451, 452, 455, 480, 482

  poverty in, 449, 450, 463–64, 471

  Rohingya people in, 458–62, 464, 468, 480–81

  Saffron Revolution (2007) in, 444, 447, 449, 452, 462, 472

  Shwedagon Pagoda in, 449–50

  history of, 459, 480

  structures demolished in, 450

  student uprisings (1988) in, 444, 456, 465, 470, 473, 475, 476

  threat of guerrilla warfare in, 468–69

  tourism in, 450, 478–79

  update, 480–82

  My Life as a Red Guard (documentary film), 124

  Naidoo, Riason, 175

  Naito, Rei, 291

  Namibia, national museum in, 144

  NASCO (National Supply Corporation), 338, 342

  National Cancer Institute, 343

  National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), 162

  National Gallery, Kabul, 270

  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Circa 1492 exhibition, 184

  National Gallery of South Africa, 143–45, 146, 175

  National Palace Museum, Taipei, 187–96, 198–99, 202–3, 209

  artworks reattributed by, 189

  balance needed against, 198

  Imperial Collection in, 187–89, 192, 203

  and Met exhibit, 182–83, 185, 189–91, 193, 195, 196

  preview exhibition of, 189–90

  renovations in, 203

  restricted list of, 189, 190–91, 194–95

  seventieth anniversary of, 185–86

  Nation of Islam, 340

  Nauman, Bruce, 100 Live and Die, 289

  Navalny, Alexei, 102

  Nay Phone Latt, 447, 452–53, 461, 471–72, 473, 480

  Nazism, 230, 306

  Ndayambaje, Jean Damascène, 309

  Ndou brothers (Goldwin and Owen), 167–68

  Sport for a Gentleman, 168

  Nemtsov, Boris, 102

  New Analysts Group, Beijing, 113

  New Europe College, Bucharest, 440–41

  Ne Win, 451

  New Republic, 17

  New Wave, 109

  New Yorker, 321, 435

  New York Times, 205, 269, 429

  New York Times Magazine, 59, 71, 103, 139, 141, 181

  Ngabonziza, Jean-de-Dieu, 316

  Ngarda (Balinese man), 403

  Ngcukana, Fitzroy, 164

  Nhlengethwa, Sam, 145–46, 156

  Niazi, Mohammed Yasin, 274

  Nicolaisen, Flemming, 23

  Nigeria, gay people stoned to death in, 35

  Night Wolves (biker gang), 99

  Ni Haifeng, 106, 117, 121, 124, 129

  Nikolayev, Leonid, 57

  Nimrod, 385–96

  Nishizawa, Ryue, 291

  Niyonsenga, Marcelline, 314–15

  Nkosi, Charles, 152, 155

  Nkotsi, Tony, 173

  Noize MC, 98

  Noonday Demon, The: An Atlas of Depression (Solomon), 32, 36, 211, 229, 249, 261, 435, 436–37

  Norman, Jessye, 361

  North, Oliver (“Ollie”), 177

  Northern Song dynasty, 378

  Norway, menu in, 21

  Novikov, Timur, 78, 81, 97

  Novogratz, Jacqueline, 319–20

  nowhere to go, 1–2, 16, 24, 481

  always someplace to go, 37

  escape fantasies, 3, 4, 33

  refugees, 25, 39–42, 233–35

  Ntobe, Joyce (pseud.), 147

  Ntshangase, Alson, The AIDS Doctors, 153

  Nyirahabimana, Alphonsine, 310

  Offenbacher, Mrs., 4

  Olsen, Astrid, 258

  Olshvang, Anton, 60

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 188

  Oprah (TV), 341

  Orpheus Island, 485–86

  Ostrakovsky, Ivan, 99–100

  Ouyang Jianghe, 140

  Ovcharenko, Vladimir, 58

  Ovchinnikova, Masha, 82–83

  OvidiuRo (NGO), 436, 440

  Pachugin, Yaroslav, 83

  Paes, Eduardo, 416

  Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza, 337

  Pakistan:

  intelligence service (ISI), 271

  and Muslim guerrillas, 460

  nuclear weapons of, 347

  women wearing hijab in, 26

  Palestine, 352

  Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), 164

  Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie bombing), 322, 326, 346, 347, 348

  Pan Dehai, 106

  paper, origins of, 128

  paranoia, 255

  Paris:

  Garnier (theatre) in, 422

  Sots Art: Political Art from Russia exhibit, 58

  Paris terrorist attacks (November 2015), 39

  Parks, Rosa, 340

  Pascoe, Lynn, 207

  Pater, Walter, 29

  Patricof, Alan, 329

  Pavlov, MC, 75, 79–80, 97

  Payne, Malcolm, 144, 145, 146, 150, 159

  peace, 41

  Pearl, Daniel, 38

  Pearsall, Cornelia, 22

  Peilman, Kirsten, 252

  Pe Myint, 449

  PEN:

  and censorship, 36–37

  Myanmar office of, 443

  PEN American Center, author as president of, 36–37, 443

  Penkin, Sergei, 81

  Perm, Russia, Welcome to Sochi exhibit in, 57

  Peterson, Peter G., 329

  Petlyura, 75–77, 97

  Pew Research Trust, 427

  Phaly Nuon, 229, 231–35

  death of, 235

  photography, invention of, 185

  phytoplankton, 396

  Picasso, Pablo, 185

  Pierneef, Henk, 144

  Pinda (Balinese man), 401

  Pindu, Nym, 403

  Plutser-Sarno, Alex, 57

  “polar hysteria,” 2
55

  Polo, Marco, 366

  Pol Pot, 230, 231

  Popov, Sergey, 53

  Powell, Ivor, 164, 173

  Prague, cultural dissonance in, 22

  Prigov, Dima, 38

  Professor Khromov, 386–87, 390

  propaganda, 37

  Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 55

  Pussy Riot (band), 57, 100

  Putin, Vladimir, 15, 57–58, 71, 97, 99–100, 102, 437

  Pu Yi (the last emperor), 188, 376

  Qaddafi, Muammar, 7, 29, 321–23, 326–27, 329, 332–34, 335, 349, 351–52, 354

  bedouin roots of, 323, 341, 343

  and Circle of Fire, 354–56

  and corruption, 343

  death of, 356, 449

  on elections, 336–37

  Green Book, 322, 330, 332–33

  hegemony of, 345

  Jamahiriya system of, 332–33, 334, 337, 342

  legacy of, 357

  and Nation of Islam, 340

  possibility of meeting with, 339–41

  Third Universal Theory of, 332

  and unrest, 345–48, 352–53

  Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam, 7, 323–26, 327, 329, 334, 337, 349, 354

  imprisonment of, 357

  Qaddafi Foundation of, 323, 335

  and unrest, 352–53

  Qianlong Emperor, 374–84

  death of, 377

  idealism of, 384

  meditation of, 382

  poems written by, 377, 382

  reign of, 377

  Qianlong Garden of Retirement, China, 373–84

  design of, 378–80, 382

  Juanqinzhai in, 373, 374, 376, 377, 379–84

  restoration of, 383–84

  Qing dynasty, 128, 187, 203, 375–77

  Qudratullah (chef), 281–82

  Radio Liberty, 61

  Rados, Antonia, 281

  Rafferty, Emily K., 192, 196

  Rahim, Said Makhtoum, 271, 272

  Rakhine (Arakan) State, 459, 461–63

  author’s visit to, 464–68

  Ramabulana, Freddy, 168–69

  Reagan administration, 325, 345

  Reed, Lou, 361

  refugee camps, 25, 233–35, 307, 461–62, 473, 481

  refugees, 39–42

  and cultural exclusion, 39

  and immigration, 25

  Renaissance, 185, 380

  Resmini, Ni Md, 401

  Rezayee, Shaima, 284

  Rezun-Zvezdochetova, Larisa, 13, 60, 65, 66–68

  Richards, Colin, 163

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 44

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 407–28

  aesthetics of sensuality in, 423

  beach culture in, 423

  Carioca culture of, 409, 414–15, 417, 422

  Carnival in, 408–9

  Christ the Redeemer statue in, 417

  deindustrialization, 409

  favelas in, 408–15, 417–22, 423, 425–28

  Museu de Favela in, 414

  nightlife in, 423–24

  Olympic Games in, 407, 410, 416–17, 418, 419, 422, 426, 427

  pacification program in, 415–17, 420, 421, 426–28

  police and crime in, 409–13, 418, 421, 422, 425–27

  rejuvenation of historic sites in, 422–25

  samba in, 408, 409, 420, 424

  skin color in, 419–20

 

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