Out of the Gobi

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by Weijian Shan


  Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, 414

  E

  Earl F. Cheit Award (UC Berkeley), 396–397

  Earthquake (1976), 325–327, 336–337

  Economics (Lipsey, Steiner), 381

  Edmonds, Harry, 391

  Education (China) college entrance examination system eliminated/reinstated, 40, 331, 333, 365

  denial of, during Cultural Revolution, 88, 107, 311–312

  elementary schools (early 1960s), 23–33, 38–41, 51, 71

  “re-education,” 80, 107 (See also Countryside movement)

  Shan Yi on, 80

  “69ers,” 88, 107, 311

  “worker-peasant-soldier students,” 311, 343, 350

  See also Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade; College entrance (China)

  Education (United States). See University of California at Berkeley; University of San Francisco; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  Eight Model Plays, 174, 175

  Elementary School for Children of the Ministry of Foreign Trade (Beijing area) academics, 27–29, 38

  lifestyle of young children in, 23–27

  punishment in elementary schools, 25, 32–33

  summer activities and, 29–31

  Young Pioneers and, 38–41

  English 900 (Voice of America), 312

  “Eradicate the Four Pests” campaign, 8–12

  “Er Gou” (Zhang Zhiqiu), 269–272, 442–444

  F

  Feinstein, Dianne, 374–375

  “Firing at the Command Center—my big character poster” (Mao), 54

  The Firing of Hai Rui (Wu, opera), 37–39, 53–54

  First Foreign Language Institute (Beijing), 337–340

  First Half of My Life, The (Pu-yi), 52

  First National Bank of Chicago, 390–391

  First National City Bank (China), 361

  Ford, Gerald, 306

  Foreign Language Press (Beijing), 9

  “Four Olds,” 42–43, 47, 55

  Franklin, Benjamin, 403–404, 413

  Friedman, Milton, 426, 427

  Fu Dingyi, 52

  Fu Heng, 75–76

  Fu Shenglin, 75–76

  G

  Gadfly, The (Voynich), 238–239

  Gang of Four arrest of, 238, 328–329

  goals of, 315

  “There is a bridge on the Huangpu River” (poem), 320–321

  trial of, 346

  Gao Jianjing, 29, 38

  Gao Xiaorong, 196–197, 204–206, 210–212

  Garn, Jake, 422

  Garvey, Jack, 351, 354, 355, 363, 375

  Gates, Jamie, 410

  Gender roles Confucianism on, 267–268

  interaction between teenaged boys and girls, 166

  in Liushengyuan (Shandong Province), 70

  marriage practices, 97–98

  romantic relationships forbidden among youth, 269, 272–274

  women’s/girls’ modesty and, 182

  Germany, reunification of, 427–432

  Glavin, Bob, 367

  Gobi animals, insects, and wildlife cows, 116–117, 154–155, 222–223, 229–230

  horses, 179–180, 222–223, 245–247, 440

  insecticides used in agriculture, 129–130

  mosquitoes, 182

  pigs, 250–256, 260–265, 440–441

  See also Diet

  Gobi terrain and weather agricultural conditions and, 123–125, 127–135

  night walking in, 177–182

  overview of, 89–90

  rainstorms, 227–229

  sandstorms, 90, 141, 154, 215, 223, 227, 398

  winter conditions, 140–141

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 423, 424

  Graham & James, 361, 374, 390, 397, 419

  Great Networking movement in Fuzhou, 57–59

  in Ganzhou, 62–63

  in Huangyangjie, 63–64

  mini-Long March of, 59–61

  mission of, 55, 65

  in Ruijin, 59, 61–62

  in Shanghai, 56–57

  Zheng and, 58–61, 73

  Guasha (folk medicine), 253

  Guo Yujin, 350

  H

  HaBai (Army Corps friend), 149, 216–220, 222–225, 231–232

  Habor, Dick, 396

  Hai Rui, 36

  Hart, Sir Robert, 19

  Harvard Business School, 412, 415–416

  Hatch, Orrin, 420–422

  Hawink, Vin, 394

  Hengdeli Time Pieces Store, 43

  Henry, Ralph, 372

  He Yuzhou Beihai Park encampment by, 51–52

  Great Networking Movement and, 56–65

  in Xiniang Province, 66–67

  Holton, Dick, 377, 383, 390

  Hou Baolin, 153

  Hou Erman, 49–50, 56, 59, 76

  Housing bricks used for, 215, 235–236

  in China, 1960s, 17–19

  college dorms, 313, 326–327

  at Inner Mongolia Construction Army Corps, 84–85, 153 (See also Brickmaking)

  inn near potato field, Inner Mongolia, 102–103

  on Lake Wuliangsu, 143–144

  in Liushengyuan (Shandong Province), 69

  for newly married couples in China, 341

  in Philadelphia suburbs, 411–412

  at UC Berkeley, 382, 391–392, 397

  in Washington, D.C., 405

  Hua Guofeng, 327–328, 331–332

  Hua Jianmin, 433

  Huang Liqun, 32, 40

  Huang Shurong, 98, 100, 106, 188, 252–253, 260–262, 294

  Huang Yuliang, 236

  Hua Zhenhao, 243–247, 293–294, 296

  Hu (blacksmith), 132–133

  Huntsman, Jon M., Jr., 420–422

  Huntsman, Jon M., Sr., 419–422

  Hurley, Patrick J., 5

  Hu Yaobang, 48–49, 393, 422–426

  I

  Imperial University of Peking (Peking University), 282

  Inner Mongolia landmass of, 89

  Nadam (festival) and horse racing in, 179–180

  peasants of, 70–71, 203–205, 229–230, 241

  Shan’s return to Gobi (2005), 437–444

  water access in, 92, 95–96, 124–126, 164, 201–202, 218–219, 265

  See also Diet; Gobi animals, insects, and wildlife; Gobi terrain and weather

  Inner Mongolia Construction Army Corps air-raid shelters built by, 112–113, 119–121

  Beijing Military Regional Command, 276

  blacksmith shop of, 132–133

  as command economy, 160–161

  countryside movement assignments to, 82–92

  cow dung collected for fuel by, 154–155

  dismantling of, 331

  entertainment in, 104–106, 173–183, 223

  fighting among members of, 242–243

  Fourteenth Regiment, 230–232

  headquarters of, 89, 175, 181–182, 438

  home leaves and returns, 207–208, 313–314

  hygiene at, 85, 103–104

  lake reeds cut for paper mill by, 139–154, 158, 443–444

  Li’s letter to Mao about countryside movement, 237–238

  military drills by, 109–121

  modern-day state of location (2005), 437–444

  organization of, 83, 88, 110

  People’s Commune system and, 93–94

  Pig Squad, 250–256, 260–265 (See also Yi Kong (“Old Yi”))

  political study sessions of, 112

  potatoes dug by, 94–108

  sexual exploitation and rape by leaders of, 199, 275–279

  Shan’s letters to Mao and Zhou about, 238–247, 293–294, 296

  uniforms, gloves, and clothing of, 82, 91, 116, 134, 157–158, 233

  Urat Farm location of, 124, 202, 438

  veterans as leaders of, 87, 273–274

  volleyball popularity in, 289–293

  wheat planting and har
vesting by, 124–135

  Yihe Canal construction by, 161–171

  See also Barefoot doctors; Diet

  Inselbag, Isik, 428

  Inspector Calls, An (play), 334

  Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), 421–422

  “Internationale, The” (De Geyter, workers’ anthem), 169–170, 321

  “I want to cry but noisy devils are yelling” (poem), 320

  J

  Jackson-Vanik Amendment, 335–336

  JAI Press, 426

  “January Storm,” 55

  Japan Anti-Japanese War, 3–5, 52, 249–250, 361–364, 388

  economy of, late 1980s, 416

  Russo-Japanese war, 3

  World Table Tennis Championships (1971) in, 213–214

  Jefferson Starship, 357

  Jiang Qing arrest of, 328–329, 332

  Cultural Revolution role of, 37, 173–174

  Gang of Four and, 238, 315, 320–321, 328–329, 346

  imprisonment of, 74–75

  Leading Group and, 77

  public opinion of (1976), 324

  rumored treatment of, 313

  “There is a bridge on the Huangpu River” (poem), 320–321

  trial of, 346

  Jiaotong University (Shanghai), 433

  Jin Jian, 99, 101, 106

  Johnson, Herb, 426

  JP Morgan (bank), 436, 437

  K

  Kang (bed), 102

  Kang Li, 50, 76

  Kazakhstan (modern-day), China-Soviet clashes in (1969), 109–110, 121

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 13, 22, 36

  Kissinger, Henry, 215, 284

  Klein, Laurence, 409, 426–427

  “Knock down,” 55, 66–67

  Kogut, Bruce, 407, 411, 419

  Korean War, 1–4, 6, 22, 109, 115

  Kosygin, Alexei, 110

  L

  Laboe, Norman, 375–376

  Labor camps, in northeast China, 81, 99, 101, 158, 245, 306. See also Countryside movement; Inner Mongolia Construction Army Corps

  Lenin, V., 159–160, 175

  Lenin in October (film), 175, 182–183

  Lessard, Don, 407, 408

  Lexis Nexis, 375

  Li Baoquan on agricultural practices, 125, 132

  Army Corps entertainment and, 182

  brickmaking by, 219, 221–224

  characterization of, 86–87, 114–116, 118, 156–157, 221–222

  on Commander Zhang’s arrest, 275, 276

  on medical practices, 193, 197, 198, 200–201, 210

  on potato-digging expedition, 95–108

  Shan’s departure from Army Corps and, 302

  Yihe Canal construction and, 166

  Li (elementary school principal), 26

  Li Guozhong, 299–300

  Li Lun, 74–75

  Lin Biao, 112, 138, 282–285

  Li Ning, 398

  Lipsey, Richard G., 381

  Li Qinglin, 237–238

  Li Rongtian, 132–133, 188, 224–232, 243–247, 293–294, 296

  Little Red Book (Mao), 50, 285

  Liu Bing, 317–318

  Liu Fengliang Army Corps’ military drills and, 113, 115, 118–119

  arrival of soldiers at Inner Mongolia camp, 83–85, 87, 92

  brickmaking and, 215, 220–221

  lake reeds cut for paper mill by, 145–146

  on potato-digging expedition, 95, 97–104, 106–107

  in romantic relationship, 97, 273

  Liu Jingyi, 249–250

  Liu Shaoqi death of, 38, 138

  economic policy and, 160

  as Mao’s No. 2, 36, 305

  Party expulsion of, 315

  as president, 19, 21, 54, 67–68

  removed from presidency, 43, 54

  wife of, 75

  Liushengyuan (Shandong Province), agricultural production in, 69–71

  Liu Wanyi, 28

  Liu Xiaotong Army Corps arrival by, 84, 127

  Army Corps entertainment and, 174–175

  food obtained by, 84, 156–157

  health of, 202–203

  lake reeds cut for paper mill by, 147, 148

  letter to Mao and, 245, 247

  Liu Ying, 193

  Li Yan, 311–312

  Li Yongzhi, 439–441

  Li Yue, 398

  Long March, 48, 59, 268, 305

  Low, Frederick F., 379–380

  Loyalists (Revolutionary Rebels), 77

  Lu Dingyi, 53

  Luo Ruiqing, 44, 53

  Lu Zuwen, 323–324

  M

  MacArthur, Douglas, 1

  MacMillan, Ian, 421

  Maddison, Angus, 6

  Ma Lianliang, 39

  Manual for Barefoot Doctors, 187

  “Mao suits,” 42

  Mao Zedong Agrarian Revolutionary War legacy of, 61–64

  assassination attempt on, 282–285

  as chairman of Communist Party, 19, 35

  China-US relations (1970s) and, 214–215

  Cold War and, 138–139

  colleges reopened by, 282–286

  on countryside movement, 79–82

  criticism of, 70–72, 257–259

  death of, 327–329

  Deng’s relationship with, 306

  early career of, 282

  educational system criticized by, 39–41

  The Firing of Hai Rui (opera) and Yao’s critique, 37–39, 53

  on gender equality, 258

  Great Famine and, 10–19, 26–27

  Great Leap Forward and, 7–10

  Great Networking movement and, 55–65

  “highest edicts” of, 275

  on intellectualism, 281–282

  on law, 360

  Leading Group and, 77–79, 174

  Li and (imprisoned principal), 74

  Li’s letter to, 237–238

  Little Red Book, 50, 285

  Long March of, 48, 59, 268, 305

  Mao Zedong Thought, 190–192, 206

  Meeting of 7, 000 and, 21

  Nixon’s visit to China, 285

  People’s Republic of China founding and, 3–4, 5–6, 305

  on promoting production, 137

  Red Guards encouraged by, 42, 45–46, 54–55

  Research Center for Culture and History, 52

  Selected Works of Mao Zedong, The, 112, 114, 256–257

  self-rectification campaign and Anti-Rightist Campaign, 35–37

  Shan’s letter to, 238–247, 293–294, 296

  Shazhouba well and, 62

  on socialism, 160–161, 175

  Soviet-China relations and, 22–23, 110

  US citizens’ support of, in Berkeley, 382–383

  Wang Enmao and, 65–66

  Zheng Lian and, 58

  Zhou’s illness and death, 305–306, 315–316

  See also Cultural Revolution

  “Market for Lemons, The” (Akerlof), 385

  Martin, Bernie, 352, 364

  Marx, Karl, 8, 12, 36–37, 159

  Masonry work. See Brickmaking

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 406–411

  Ma Yaxian, 27

  McCarthy, Joseph, 6

  McGill, Brian, 419, 420, 422

  Meeting of 7, 000, 21

  Meng Jianzhu, 433

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), 373

  Meyer, Bob, 390

  Model Plays, 174, 175

  Modigliani, Franco, 408

  Mongolian gazelle, hunting of, 26–27

  Monument to the People’s Heroes (Tiananmen Square), 319

  Murray, Bill, 351–352, 362–363, 369, 377–378, 381, 395

  N

  Nanjing Women’s University, 75

  National Council for US-China Trade, 373

  Nationalists (China) air force of, 249–251, 255–256, 263–264, 266

  ongoing war with Com
munists, 57

  People’s Republic of China founding and, 3–4

  Newbridge Capital, 327

  New York Stock Exchange, 372

  Nixon, Richard in China, 215, 275, 285, 306, 313–314, 364

  inauguration of, 79

  Soviet-China relations and, 110

  Vietnam War and, 139

  Williams, Haydn and, 347

  Nobel Prize, 380, 385, 409, 426–427

  O

  Obama, Barack, 421

  October Revolution of 1917, 175, 182–183

  “Old Hou,” 273–274

  Olympics (1984), 397–398

  “On Contradiction” (Mao), 190–192

  O’Neill, Monique, 372–373

  O’Neill, Tom, 372–373

  Opium Wars, 2–3, 379

  Outing Liu Movement, 67–68

  P

  Palmer, Russell (“Russ”), 410, 418–419

  Patterson, Bob, 375, 419

  Peking University (Imperial University of Peking), 282

  Peng Dehuai, 14, 36, 44

  Peng Zhen, 44, 53

  People’s Congress, 238

  People’s Daily (People’s Republic of China) on revolutionary committees, 78

  on Revolutionary Rebels, 55

  on sparrows, 11

  on Tiananmen Square uprising (1989), 424

  People’s Liberation Army class enemies in, 276–277

  founding of, 3

  Wang Hongwen and, 328

  People’s Republic of China China-Taiwan relations, 6, 57, 349–350, 377

  China-US relations (1960s), 109–110

  China-US relations (1970s), 213–215, 332 (See also Carter, Jimmy; Nixon, Richard)

  Chinese medicine vs. Western medicine, 190

  economic reforms under Deng, 380–381, 393–395, 434

  The Firing of Hai Rui (opera) and, 37–39, 53

  founding of, 3–4, 5–6, 305

  Great Famine, 10–19, 26–27

  Great Leap Forward, 6–10, 36

 

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