When a Billion Chinese Jump

coal dust, 205–6, 215, 222, 308

coal industry, 52, 58, 144, 157, 165, 169, 170–87, 219, 221–22, 227, 228–29, 296, 308–11, 322

Cohen, Joel, 124, 134

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 315

communism, 90, 100, 102, 104, 115, 146, 238, 280

Communist Party, 10, 25, 47, 77, 103, 111, 113, 115, 117, 128, 135, 199, 211, 225, 232, 238, 246, 257, 258, 259, 270, 300, 301, 304, 317

computer part recycling, 88–89

Confucianism, 11, 12–13, 47, 53, 165, 250, 257, 303, 304, 307

conservation of wildlife. See wildlife conservation

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 38, 70

cotton, 66, 208, 210, 211, 250, 251–52

crime, 91, 126, 137

Cultural Revolution, 48, 56, 57, 103, 127, 140, 145, 161, 209, 225, 226, 272, 290, 298, 307, 315

Dai Qing, 53, 305

Dai Xiaolong, 242, 243

Dalai Lama, 27, 29, 30, 33, 38, 41

Dalian, Liaoning Province, 244–48, 320

Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 226, 227–28

dams, 40, 43, 44–46, 53, 57–58, 155

Dandong, Liaoning Province, 239

David, Armand, 66

deforestation, 277–79, 281, 287–88, 319

demographic changes. See migration

Deng Fei, 156

Deng Nan, 241, 242

Deng Xiaoping, 47, 90, 103, 120, 132, 241, 282

desertification, 190, 191, 200, 201–3, 211, 217, 218, 228

Dianchi Lake, 263, 290

Dickens, Charles, 182

disclosure laws on pollution, 270, 277, 291, 300

dolls, 130–32, 134, 136, 146

Dong Zhiyong, 280–81

Dongba shamanistic culture, 7, 11

Dongtan, 232, 243

Dou Shuozeng, 264, 265

droughts, 54, 152, 190, 195, 197, 199, 202, 206, 311, 323

Dujiangyan waterworks, 44, 45, 46–47, 48, 53, 58

dust, from coal use, 157, 172, 173, 174, 205–6, 215, 222, 308

dust storms, 192, 193, 201–2, 297, 319, 323

E Yunlong, 304–5

earthquakes, 36–37, 43–49, 60–61

Earthwatch Institute, 144

Eastern Zhou period, 11

eco-city projects, 231–32, 235, 240–43, 322

eco-farming project, 256–57, 258–60

Ecological Civilization Research Center, 77

economic development

Guangdong Province and, 90–91

environmental problems and, 113–14

Henan Province and, 156

loss of farmland and, 122–23

manufacturing and, 109–10

water resources policy and, 221

wildlife conservation and, 67, 68, 76, 77

Yangtze dolphin (baiji) decline and, 64–65, 80

eco-tourism, 301

Elvin, Mark, 13, 153, 191, 216

Emmott, Bill, 113–14

endangered species, 13, 14, 32, 38, 62, 64–65, 67, 69–76, 92–93, 271, 281, 288, 289, 291

environment

China’s building of railway to Tibet and effects on, 30, 32

cleanup efforts and, 112–13, 114

coal industry and, 173–74

dams and water diversion projects and, 40, 45–46, 53–55, 56, 58

Guangdong Province development and, 84–85, 94–95

industrialization and, 159, 160

permafrost changes and, 29–30, 35–36, 37

recycling firms and, 88–89

resettlement of herders and, 33–35

Three Gorges Dam and, 51, 52–53

tree-planting projects and, 200–201, 278–79

environmental movement

dam construction and, 58

manufacturing pollution and, 109–11

population growth and, 152

“Scientific Development” policy and, 47, 115

wildlife conservation in Tibet and, 32

environmental policy

Caofeidian reclamation project and, 233–34

differences in approaches to, 67

economic development and, 67, 113–14

failure of, 289–91, 293

green (eco-city) approaches to new cities and, 231–32, 235, 240–43

new generation of scientists and, 56–57

pollution and, 159, 160, 300

“Scientific Development” and, 47

Shenyang, Liaoning Province, as a model of, 235

wealth creation using, 114

wealthier nations and, 94, 98

Environmental Protection Department (EPD), 274–75

Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus), 86

ethnic riots, 41, 220

eutrophication, 262–63

Evelyn, John, 181–82

family-planning policy, 167–69, 189

famines, 134, 152, 155, 162, 189, 206, 240, 259

Fan Xiao, 61

farms, for endangered species, 69–73, 291