When a Billion Chinese Jump

Jaguar cars, 141–42

Japan, 26, 48, 66, 80, 87, 109, 114, 116, 139, 154, 156, 207, 227, 229, 245, 273, 276, 278, 296, 313–14, 318, 320

Jia Zhangke, 50

Jiang Gaoming, 255–57, 258, 260

Jiang Rong, 305–7

Jiang Zemin, 47

Jiangjiazhuang Village, 256–57, 258–60

Jiangsu Province, 99–104, 112–13, 114, 115–17, 301

Jilin Province, 198, 275, 276, 278, 284

Jin dynasty, 10

Jinsha River, 45, 54, 58, 59

Kang Xi, 277–78

Kaifeng, 153, 165

Kazakh ethnic group, 205, 207, 208, 212, 213

Kekexili (film), 32

Kipling, Rudyard, 31

Klose, Christian, 61

Kublai Khan, 6, 312–13, 314, 317

Kublai Khan (Coleridge), 315

Kunlun mountain range, 29, 30, 34, 208

Kunlun Pass, 35, 36

Kunming Institute of Botany, 17

Kynge, James, 165

Lai Hansong, 126

Lake Xinkai, 289

Land of Peach Blossom myth, 10–11

Lao-tzu, 46, 152

Legalism, 12–13

Lei Feng, 257–58

Lhasa, 25, 27–31, 35–36, 41

Li Bai, 23

Li Bing, 46

Li Can, 225–26, 228–29

Li Gong, 127

Li Heping, 111

Li Keqiang, 291

Li Li (Muzimei), 93

Li Ling, 55, 56

Li Mingtan, 142

Li Peng, 50

Li Ping, 275, 276

Li Shizhen, 68, 69, 71, 72

Li Yang, 177

Li Yukou (Liezi), 25

Liang Congjie, 299

Lianhua Gourmet Powder Company, 156, 157, 159, 160

Liao River, 45, 276

Liaoning Province, 218, 230, 234, 240–41, 253, 257–58, 269, 278

Lijiang, Yunnan Province, 6–7

Lindesay, William, 191

Linfen, Shanxi Province, 172, 177–79

Linyi agricultural center, 252–53, 258–60, 267

liquefaction technique for coal, 309–11, 322

Liu An, 12–13, 290

Liu Shaoqi, 290

Liu Yunting, 131

livestock grazing, 34–35, 37, 201–2, 298

Loess Plateau, 192, 201, 294

logging, 277–79, 282, 284–88, 290

Lohas (magazine), 303

Long Kuan, 302–3

Lost Horizon (Hilton), 5–6, 8, 10, 20, 21

Lovelock, James, 167

Lu Zhiqing, 317

lung cancer, 157, 179

Ma Jun, 113, 210–11, 300, 305

Ma Shengli, 283

Ma Yinchu, 166

Ma Zhong, 271–74, 292, 293

MacKinnon, John, 77, 283

Malthus, Thomas, 86, 152, 166, 168

Manchuria, 277–78

Mandate of Heaven, 44–45

Mao Zedong, 7, 8, 25, 26, 29, 42, 47–48, 50, 53, 104, 120, 152, 154, 155, 166, 167, 188, 198, 204, 208, 209, 212, 251, 258, 272, 281, 290

Maoism, 57, 58, 102, 115

maps, vi, 2, 82, 150, 224

Mars, Neville, 124

Marxism, 221, 304, 317

Mattel, 130–31

medicine, traditional, 68–69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 284

Mekong River, 14, 22, 40

Mencius, 11, 165

Meng Xianchen and Xianyou, 170–72, 174–75, 186

Miao ethnic minority, 13

middle class, emergence of, 77, 114, 128, 131, 133, 137, 144, 290, 324

Middle Kingdom, 180, 192

migrant workers, 49–50, 84, 120–21, 129, 177

migration, 40–41, 49–50, 51, 52, 120–21, 129–30, 153–54, 156, 207–8, 218, 220

mineral resources, in Tibet, 31, 39–40

Min mountain range, 76

Min River, Zipingpu Dam on, 43, 45–46, 47, 48, 61

Mongolia, 40, 191, 295, 307, 314, 315, 317, 326

Mongolian nomads, 191, 216, 295, 306

Monsanto, 251

Moseley, Bob, 17

Mosuo, Yunnan Province, 7

Mount Everest, 28, 36, 37