Jonathan Watts - When a Billion Chinese Jump

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

Mu Jingjun, 280

Mu Qinzhong, 56

Mu Shengzhong, 32–33

Muzimei, 93

National Geographic, 6

National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 226, 227–28

national parks, logging in, 277–79, 282, 284–86, 290

natural resources, in Tibet, 31, 39–40

Nature Conservancy, 17

nature reserves, 38, 40, 65–66, 67, 68, 69–76, 77, 281, 288, 292

Naxi ethnic minority, 13

Nepal, 6, 8, 31, 37

Ningxia Province, 124, 193, 196, 293, 296, 310

nomads, resettlement of, 33–35, 40, 296, 297–98

North Korea, 239–40, 284

Northern Song dynasty, 153

Nu (Salween) River, 14, 59

obesity, 134

oceans, pollution of, 263–65

Olympics, 197, 234, 266

one-child policy, 167–68, 169

opium trade, 86, 88

Ordos, Inner Mongolia, 307–12

organic farming, 257, 259–60

Pacific Ocean, pollution of, 264

pandas, nature reserve for, 73–76

pangolins, 92–93

Pan Wenshi, 75, 77

Pan Yue, 94, 183, 191, 275, 291, 299

paper mills, 194–95, 286, 299

parks, for wildlife conservation, 69–72

Pearl River, 45, 66, 94–95, 262

Peking University, 77

People’s Daily, 10

People’s Liberation Army, 32, 33, 197, 274

Père David’s deer, 66

permafrost, in Tibet, 29–30, 35–36, 37

pesticides, 102, 103, 117, 253–54, 255, 257, 264, 276, 289

PetroChina, 218, 233

Pfluger, August, 63, 66–67

poaching, 32, 38, 279, 289

pollution

activists battling, 158, 301, 302, 307, 324

agriculture and, 254, 255, 256–57, 260–61

birth defects from, 109, 153

cancer rates and, 52, 89, 109, 152, 153, 156–58, 159–60, 162, 179

Caofeidian reclamation project and, 233

car-emission standards and, 270

cleanup efforts and, 112–13, 230–31, 320

coal mining and, 52, 58, 172–73, 174, 178–79, 183, 185–86

death rates from, 160

dechimneyfication campaign and, 235

disclosure laws on, 270, 277, 291, 300

drought and, 195

environmental laws and, 300

GDP expansion and cost of, 114–15

glaciers and, 214

government and, 52–53, 88, 94, 112, 113–14, 156, 159, 178–79, 235, 239, 264, 270–71, 274, 275–77, 290, 291, 296, 300, 320, 322, 323, 324

in Guangdong Province, 88, 94

health and, 84, 156–60, 172–73, 179–80

in Henan Province, 156–57

industries and, 85, 94, 99, 102, 103–4, 107, 108–10, 112, 114, 156, 157, 159, 178, 181, 193, 194, 230, 231, 233, 235, 244, 246, 263, 296, 299

in Inner Mongolia, 296

in Jiangsu Province, 99, 104, 112–13

lung cancer and, 157, 179

new generation’s viewpoint on, 57

paper mills and, 194–95, 299

pollen and, 254

protests against, 110–12, 157, 321

public tolerance for, 115, 303

recycling and, 83–84, 88, 94–95

relocation of polluters and, 114, 133

rich countries’ outsourcing of, 57–58, 87, 94, 247

seasonal burns after harvest and, 153–54

in Shaanxi Province, 179

in Shanxi Province, 172–73, 178–79, 183

in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, 235

Songhua benzene spill and, 275–77

tourists and, 9, 16

water vapor with, 34

in Zhejiang Province, 109, 112, 113

Polo, Marco, 312

Poplar Hybrid 107 (PH107), 253–55

population density, 153, 154–55, 165–66, 296

population growth, 201, 320

Poyang Lake, 289

Prince of Huainan, 12, 290

prostitution, 93–94, 129, 139

protests, against pollution, 110–12, 157, 321

Pyongyang, North Korea, 239–40

Qian Zhengying, 219–21, 222, 293, 321

Qiaotou, Zhejiang Province, 108–9

Qingdao, Shandong Province, 261–62, 265, 266

Qing dynasty, 17, 86, 94, 165–66, 277–78

rain creation, 197–99

Ramsar Convention, 273

reclamation project, at Caofeidian, 233–34

recycling, 84–85, 86–89, 90, 94, 96–98

Red List of endangered species, 67, 75, 281

red tides, 262, 263

release programs, 70, 75–76

relocation and resettlement programs, 33–35, 40, 49–50, 51, 52, 188, 191, 195, 220, 296, 297–98

Retreat of the Elephants (Elvin), 13

Riding the Iron Rooster (Theroux), 30

rivers, control of. See dams Rock, James, 6, 8, 9, 10

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 6

Roots & Shoots, 302

Russia, and timber trade, 287–88

safety standards, in coal industry, 174–75, 184

Sanjiang wetlands, 272–74, 275, 292–93

Sanmenxia Dam, 193

Sasol, 310

Scientific Development (Scientific Outlook on Development) policy, 29, 30, 46–47, 59, 77, 112, 115, 178, 183–84, 222, 232, 246, 251, 263–64, 270, 275, 291–92, 308, 312, 321–22

seismic monitoring systems, 36–37

sewage treatment, 125, 263

sex-related businesses, 93–94, 139

Shaanxi Province, 173, 175–77, 180, 183, 184, 192

Shambala, 8, 31

Shandong Province, 165, 196, 250, 256, 261, 263, 302