This Generation (33 page)

Siqin Gaowa,
105

Soccer,
63
–65,
175
–76

Social nurturing,
11
,
13
–15

South Africa,
176

South Korea,
177

Soviet Union, collapse of Communism in,
246

Special Economic Zones,
211

Sports General Bureau,
58

Stalin, Joseph,
218

Stock market,
200
–1

Stone, Sharon,
47
–51

Sudan,
219

Suicides, factory worker,
171
–73

Su Jin,
105

Taboos, observing,
224

Taiping Rebellion,
234

Taiwan,
95
,
96
,
171
n

   Japanese occupation of,
175

   support for independence of,
42

Taixing,
157

Taizhou,
159
–60

Tang dynasty,
224

Tang Fuzhen,
187
–88

Tangshan,
82

Tang Wei,
58
,
105

Taxes,
14
–15,
106

   agricultural,
6
–7,
219

   annual revenues,
236

   avoidance of,
6
,
106

   on car purchases,
13

   on e-bikes,
118

Television,
86
,
218

   car races on,
250

   in classrooms,
204

   Qianlong Emperor series on,
205

   top leaders on,
141
,
183

   
see also
Chinese Central Television (CCTV)

Tencent, Inc.,
237
n

Three Gorges Dam,
127
,
209
–11

“Three Representatives theory,”
97

Tibet,
43
,
50

   foreign support for independence of,
33
,
42
,
47
,
74

Tobacco consumption,
138

Toll roads,
13
–14

Tong Ange,
105

Traffic accident victims,
110
,
119

   compensation paid out to families of,
5
,
6

   presentation of murder victims as,
189
–92

Trains, high-speed, collision of,
217
–20

Tripartite division of powers,
166

Triple Door
(Han Han),
ix
–x,
222

Tsunami,
48
–50

“Two Whatevers” policy,
97

United States,
51
,
93
,
251

   Chinese belief in military superiority to,
204

   and Chinese sensitivity to perceived insults,
27
,
31

   financial crisis in,
196

   natural disasters in,
48

   sanctions imposed on North Korea by,
177

University entrance exams,
23

Urban registration,
5
–8

Vaccines, faulty,
160

Velvet Revolution,
239
–40

Volkswagens,
198

Wang,
79

Wang Ji,
105

Water pollution,
7
,
140
,
190

Wenzhou,
189

Weifang,
159

Wei Wei,
105

Wenchuan earthquake,
69
,
127

White Lotus uprising,
234

World Cup soccer,
175
–76

World Rally Championship,
34
,
109
–13

World War II,
175

Writer's Association,
246

Wuhan,
207

Wu Junmei,
105

Wu Zhuoliu,
175

Xiaoming,
131

Xie Chaoping,
187
–88

Xu Fan,
105

Xu Jinglei,
17

Xu Lang,
250

Xu Qing,
105

Yang Jia,
157

Yang Peiyi,
61
,
62

Yangtze, dam on,
see
Three Gorges Dam

Yao Ming,
10

Yellow River, construction of dam across,
187
n

Yibin Public Security,
101
–2

Young Pioneers,
203
,
206
,
207

Yuan Tengfei,
167

Yugoslavia,
214

Yunnan,
175

Zhang,
79
–80

Zhang Jianyong,
89

Zhang Tielin,
105

Zhang Ziyi,
105

Zhejiang Province,
79

Zhou Qiaorong,
38

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