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acid rain, 94, 104, 174, 179

Ai Qing, 208

AIDS infection rates, 163–65

Akamatsu, Tomonori, 78

algae, 52, 109, 197, 256, 262–63, 264, 265–67, 308, 321, 323

Amur tiger, 271, 283–84

Anhui Province, 84, 121, 155, 159, 162, 209, 320

aquaculture, 262, 265, 266–67

Art of Survival, The (Yu), 235–36

Arup, 232

Asian Development Bank, 273–74

Bai ethnic minority, 13

baiji (Yangtze dolphins), 62–66, 78–80

Baiji National Reserve, Tian-e-Zhou, 65–66

bangbang man, 119, 120, 127, 129

Barbie (doll), 130–32, 134, 136, 146

Beijing, 10, 31, 54, 56, 98, 121, 124, 172, 179, 183, 192, 221, 233, 234, 247, 272, 314, 320, 322

Beijing Zoo, 68

Bencao Gangmu (Li), 68

Bigu Lake, 4

biogas, 241, 256, 258, 259

biotechnology, 251–52, 253

birth defects, 109, 153, 167, 168, 173

Black Belt, 173

Black Dragon River, 286–87

black market, for animal parts, 71

Blacksmith Institute, 172

Blind Shaft (film), 177

blood farming, 163–65

Bo Xilai, 124–25, 245

Bohai Sea, 230, 233, 247, 250, 263–64

Bon spiritual tradition, 7

Book of the Prince of Huainan, 12, 290

Brahmaputra River, 40, 55, 56

breeding programs, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70–71, 72–73, 74–77

Brown, Lester, 144, 261, 297

Buck, Pearl, 162

Buddhism, 7, 8, 11, 20, 22–23, 31, 152, 250, 289, 295, 301, 326

Cable, Mildred, 218

Campanella, Thomas, 124

cancer, 15, 19, 52, 68, 72, 89, 109, 152, 153, 156–58, 159–60, 162, 179

Caofeidian, 233–34

capitalism, 90, 100, 102, 103, 104, 115, 122, 166, 238, 304, 323

Capra, Frank, 6

captive-breeding programs, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70–71, 72–73, 74–77

car-emission standards, 270

car ownership, 141–42

Carson, Rachel, 276

caves, as homes, 199

Cen Shen, 217

Changbaishan forest, 284

Chen Furong, 311

Chen Guidi, 159

Chen Jiqun, 297–300, 307

Chen Kaige, 4

Chiang Kai-shek, 154

China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), 275, 276

China Species Red List, 67, 75, 281

chiru conservation program, 38–39, 77

Chongqing, 118–23, 124, 127–29

clear-cutting, 278–79

climate change, 34–35, 36–37, 40, 55, 77, 187, 195, 201, 203, 205, 213–14, 219, 220, 221, 222

cloud seeding, 197–99

Club 88, Shanghai, 139–40

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