Admiralty Pilot for the Yangtze, The, 30, 45, 94, 161, 410
Agricultural communes, 187
Agriculture, 174–5, 184, 294–5
Ailao Shan, 365
Air services, 220–22
Airports, 216, 220–21, 246, 253
Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, 21, 130, 206, 211
Alien's Travel Permit, 372–3
American Merchant Ships on the Yangtze 1920–1941 (Grover), 410
Amethyst, HMS, 105–11, 265, 286
Amherst, Lord, 29
Amoy, 72
Ancient Nakhi Kingdom of Southwest China (Rock), 412
Anhui province, 197
Anjue Si lamasery, 380
Annam, 366
Anning River, 370
Anqing, 160
Anthropological discoveries, 25, 292–3
Aris, Michael, 412
Armstrong, Lord, 71
Asian Development Bank, 241
Assam, 151
Aylward, Gladys, 95
Azhu relationships, 334
Backhouse, Edmund, 127
Backyard furnaces, 187
Baedeker, Karl, 128
Bai people, 325
Bakong Scripture Printing House, 389–91
Bangs, Richard, 412
Barber, Noel, 412
Barhour, George, 229
Barolo, Giancarlo, 125–8
Bates, H. E., 325
Beard, Daniel, 236
Beijing, 50–51, 54, 124, 189, 200, 201, 240, 281n, 351, 355, 401
Belloc, Hilaire, 376
Bergman, Ingrid, 95
Bicycle accident, 118–20
Bilateral cooperation, 371
Bilharzia, 195n
Biological experiments, 135–7
Black tea, 180
Blue River, 101
Bon religion, 329
Bonavia, Judy, 409
‘Boneless pigs’, 303, 334, 376
Booz, Patrick, 342
Borodin, Mikhail, 215
Botanical studies, 340–41
Botanical studies, 337–8
Boxer Uprising, 269
Bridges, 122–4, 202–3, 378–9, 404–5
Britain's Last Imperial Adventure, 376
Britannia (royal yacht), 91
British mercantilism, 57–61, 70–71, 173–9
Brothels, 72–3
Brunei, 53–4
Buck, John, 115
Buck, Pearl S., 115–16
Buddhists, 377
Bus service, 306–9
Butterfield & Swire, 284, 63, 89
Cadres Regiment, 313
Camellia plants, 173–4. See alsoTea industry
Camping, 368–70
Canadian visitors, 249–50, 250n
Canals, 95, 100, 101, 113–14, 157
Canton, 72, 87, 174, 197, 216, 217, 318
Castro, Fidel, 141
Cathay Hotel, 84
Celestial Empire, 264
Central China Anti-Epidemic Water Supply Unit, 138
Central China Flood of 1931, 150, 153–4, 155–6
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 31
Ch‘ang Chiang Pilot, 383–5, 410
Ch'ang Jiang Light Ship, 35
Chala, 376
Chang Jiang Kou Bei Jiao, 41
Chang Jiang! Chang Jiang! (Dai Qing), 239, 411
Changchup Dolma, 383–5
Chatwin, Bruce, 338, 338–9, 341, 342
Chaulmoogra oil, 333
Cheng Ho, 142
Chengdu, 295, 297, 323, 353, 370, 373, 375, 381, 394
Chenqian, 41
Chiang Kai-shek, 130, 139, 156, 172, 197, 215, 244n, 281, 287
Chiang Mai, 327
Chin-huai stream, 139–40
China Daily, 164
China Geographic Research Institute, 351
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, 284
China Navigation Company (CN Co.), 63, 284, 285, 412
China Quarterly, The, 85n
China Yangtze River Scientific Observation Drifting Expedition, 358
Chittagong, 94
Chola-shan mountains, 386
Chongqing, 19, 26, 130, 226, 234, 242–3, 266–9, 280–82, 286–7, 336, 366
Chou En-lai, 215
Ciochon, Russell, 293
Cleese, John, 342
Clinton, Bill, 31
Cloud Mountain, 4–5,264, 359, 360–62, 363, 364, 366, 367
Coates, Austin, 9
Cockchafer, HMS, 285
Come-to-Me Rock, 271
Communications satellite, 309–10
Communist Party Central Committee, 188
Communist takeover (1949), 87, 106
Concord, HMS, 111
Confucianists, 224
Cormorants, 283
Creation myths, 362
Crush-tear-curl (CTC) process, 181
Cultural Revolution, 86, 141, 189, 190–91, 201, 231, 232, 255, 257, 329, 339–40, 381, 383, 390, 391
Currency exchange scam, 247–8
Cuttlefish boats, 42
Da Fu, 325
Dadu River, 378
Dalai Lama, 279, 322, 325, 377, 389, 398, 401
Dalian, 28
Dam building, 223–9, 235, 253–7, 261–2, 316–20
Dam Qu stream, 322, 350–52, 404
Daxue Mountains, 370
Daya Bay, 250
Dead bodies, 90–91, 193–4, 321–2
Dêgê, 355, 373, 374, 377, 381, 387–91
Democratic Youth Party, 245
Dharmsala, India, 401
Dikes, 157–9
Din-Din Café, 331
Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office, The, 190
Distilleries, 297–8
Domand Gunpa lamasery, 385
Dong Jiao, 41
Dong Zhi, 276
Dongting Lake, 157
Dragon Hill Cave, 291–3
Dragon Horse Stream, 275
Dragon's Descendant (boat), 353
Drepung Monastery, 398
Du, Mrs, 276–8
Earthquakes, 244
East China Sea, 2, 20, 33, 35, 38, 150, 238, 343, 391
East India Company, 70–71, 175–6
East Is Red Number One, The (ship), 198–9
Eder Dam, 244
Eighth Battalion of the Wuchang Engineers, 209
Electrical-power generators, 225, 227, 228, 235–6, 253
Elliot, Charles, 143
Ena, Ms, 322
Endangered Species Act, 241
Environmentalism, 239, 241, 246, 253
Epic Undertaking, An, 219, 260
Ertan Dam, 316–18
Estuary, 37–43
Expeditions, 352–8
Exports, 214
Extraterritoriality, 106
Face, loss of, 311
Fairy Flats, 49n
Fall of Shanghai, The (Barber), 412
Fishermen, 101–3
Five Cereals Liquid, 297
Flatwater, 344
Flood Relief Commission, 156, 158
Floods, 149–58, 163–5, 192, 222–3
Flower boats, 139–40
Forbidden City, 209
Foreign debt, 251
Fossils, 291–3
Franchises, 212–13
Franklin Research and Development Corporation, 252
Freedom of Information Act, 31–2
Frozen yogurt, 211
Fu-hsi, Emperor, 363
Fuling, 234
Fushan, 94
Gambling, 73
Garway's Coffee House, 173, 174
Gas stations, 382–3
Ge Guo-hong, 81–3
Gelandandong Glacier, 404, 405
Gelandandong, Mount, 343, 351, 352, 367, 374, 405
Geology, 367
Gezhouba Dam, 254–7
Gill, William, 264
Glen Canyon Dam, 236
Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges (Plant), 411
Gold mines, 385–6
Golden Road, 325
Good Earth, The (Buck), 115, 214, 294
Goullart, Peter, 334–5
Grand Canal, 95, 100, 101, 113–14
Grand Coulee Dam, 236
Great Anniversary Swim of 1995, 202
Great Bend at Shigu Town, 20, 25, 264
Great Leap Forward, 102, 125, 187–8, 200, 232, 324
Green tea, 181–2
Grover, David, 410
Guangxi province, 327
Guangzhuguo Stream, 351–2, 352
Guanxi (connections), 372, 374, 388
Guichi, 160–62
Guidebooks, 128–9
Guinness Book of Records, The, 258
Guiyang, 239
Gulags, 245
Gunboat diplomacy, 284–6
Gyermorong, 376
Hai Rui, 189–90
Hainan Island, 54
Haiphong, Vietnam, 214
Han Chinese, 16, 303, 307, 322, 329, 376, 400
Handbook for the Guidance of Shipmasters on the Ichang-Chungking Section of the Yangtze River, A (Plant), 270–72
Han Shui River, 203
Hanson, J. M., 133–4
Hanyang, 203
Hazelwood, 62–5, 67, 69, 78, 89
Hegemony, 54
Henan province, 243
Heng Sha, 41
Henry, Augustine, 337
Herbal medicine, 339–42
Hersey, John, 230–31, 253, 255, 290, 408
Hippie Trail, 327
History of Far Eastern Art (Lee), 9
Ho Shi-xiu, 338–42
Hobhouse, Henry, 412
Hong Kong, 70, 77, 81, 82, 87, 143–4, 177, 216–17, 236, 252, 274, 309, 406
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, 83
Hoover Dam, 236
Horizon Splitting Range, 359, 361
Hsia dynasty, 263
Hsia, Joseph, 76
Huang Ti, 362–3
Huangla Stone, 244
Huanglingmiao, 232
Huc, Abbé, 380
Humboldt, Alexander von, 265
Hydraulics, 223–4
Hydroelectric power systems, 225, 227, 228, 235–6, 253
Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 129
Imperial Maritime Customs Service, 154, 269–70, 276, 337
Imports, 211–13
Indian tea, 178
Inspection Cruiser Number Two, 36, 37, 41
International Relief Committee, 133
Investments, 250–51
Irkutsk, 381
Iron Duke, HMS, 50
Irrigation systems, 225
Isherwood, Christopher, 73, 215
Itaipu Dam, 235
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, 326–7, 337, 339
Japanese occupation, 130–39
Jardine, Matheson & Co., 57–60, 63, 176, 212, 284
Jari Hill, 352
Java Man, 293
Jiang Qing, 190
Jianggudiru Glacier, 351
Jiangxi province, 197
Jinjiang Flood Diversion Region, 222, 237
Jinling Hotel, 125
Jinsha Jiang, 295, 298, 350, 352, 353, 358
Jiuhua Mountain, 160
Jiujiang, 145, 152, 162, 165, 166–71, 192, 245
Jiujiang Hotel, 167–71
Jiujiang Tea Company, 180
Joint Operations Graphics (JOG) sheets, 30–31, 409
Journey to a War (Isherwood), 215
Judy's Place, 89
Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, The (Worcester), 409–10
Kaixian county, 245
Kallen, Christine, 412
Kangding, 373, 377, 379–81, 383
Kanxi, Emperor, 15
Kashgar, 216
Kathmandu, 327
Kham region, 376–7
Khampas, 376
King of Muli, 334
Kinsha, HMS, 269
Kipling, Rudyard, 393
Koreans, 160–61
Kou-an Reach, 107
Kung, Prince, 51
Kunlun (boat), 148
Kuomintang (KMT), 106, 215, 314, 315
Kyzyl, 381
Labour camps, 396–7
Lamas, 412
Lamas, Princes and Brigands (Rock & Aris), 412
Lamaseries, 380, 381, 383, 384–5, 391, 400
Lancelot Dent and Company, 176
Lao Cai, 366
Large Dams in China, 256
Lee, J. S., 229
Leechuan (ship), 267
Lei Jiansheng, 357
Leibo, 304
Leiwujie, 394
Lhasa, 327, 331, 373–4, 375, 376, 377, 381, 383, 386, 394, 397–8, 400, 403
Li Peng, 233, 234, 235, 237, 240–42, 253, 297
Li Qingjian, 357
Li Siguang, 229
Liaoning province, 89
Lijiang, 327–32, 336–7, 338, 339–40, 346
Lily (Li Xiaodi), 26–9 and passim
Lin Huainto, 239
Liquor industry, 297–8
Lishe Jiang, 365
Lithang, 376
Little Orphan Channel, 162–3
Little, Archibald, 264, 265–6, 267–8345, 411
Liu Rong Bo, 259–60
Locks, ship, 255–6
Logging industry, 316
Longgupo Cave, 291–2
Lord Amherst (ship), 71
Lu, Captain, 299–300
Luding Bridge, 378–9
Luoyang Expedition for Sailing and Exploring the Yangtze, 358
Lushan Misty Clouds Green Tea, 170, 182, 185
Lushan Tea Research Institute, 182–6
Lynn, Madeleine, 409
Ma Lu, 389
Ma Shumou, 114n
Macclesfield Bank, 53
Mackay, Ivor, 134
McWhirter, Norris, 258
Manchuria, 28, 89, 130, 136, 177
Manchus, 50–51, 58, 177, 206–11, 265, 277, 376, 377
Mandarin, 26
Mao Zedong, 102, 140–41, 148, 172, 187–91, 195–202, 215, 217–18, 230, 231–2, 255, 306, 313–15, 324, 337, 349
Marco Polo Bridge incident, 130
Margery, Augustus, 264
Masseuses, 80
Masuda Rokusuke, 132
Matsui Iwane, 131
Medicine, Chinese, 339–42
Mei-ling, 172
Meirentuo, 232
Mekong River, 350, 364, 373, 393–4
Meng Jiao, 325
Meteor-Studded Rapid, 358
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14
Miao, Mr, 374–5, 382, 392, 395–6, 397, 400
Middle Kingdom, 2, 5, 12, 52, 191, 327, 366
Middle Sand Light, 38
Mills, W. P., 134
Ming dynasty, 15, 131, 189–90, 350
Minya Konka peak, 335
Miocene Orogeny, 4
Miracle Canal, 158
Mirror Mountain, 162
Misty Foothills Mountains, 365
Mohne Dam, 244
Money-changing scam, 247–8
Monsoons, 151–3
Moso people, 302–3, 334–5, 376
Moulmein, 393
Mukden Railway, 206
Muli, 303
Murdoch, Rupert, 310n
Murray, John, 128
Musicians, 330
Myself a Mandarin (Coates), 9n
Nakhi people, 303, 328–31, 334, 336, 337, 365
Nanjin Pass, 232
Nanjing, 19, 106, 114, 115–46, 154, 202, 211,216, 366
Nanjing Treaty Museum, 142–5
Nanking Incident of 1927, 121, 142
Nanking, Rape of, 131–5
Nation, The, 285
National Geographic, 378
National Geographic Society, 334, 351
National People's Congress, 240, 251
National Security Council (NSC), 31
Navy, Chinese, 53–5
Needham, Joseph, 410
New Chinese Army, 207
New York City Comptroller's Investment Responsibility Office, 252
New York World, 285
Ningjing Range, 394
North-China Daily News, 210
Observer, 408
Odyssey Guide to Sichuan, 409
On Leaving Bai Di Cheng (Walker), 411
Oolong tea, 181
Opium divans, 72–3
Opium Wars, 29, 57, 76, 143, 177, 204
Oriental Pearl Television Tower, 66–9, 82, 86
Otters, 283
Pagodas, 160–62
Palaeontological discoveries, 291–4
Palin, Michael, 342
Panay (gunboat), 285
Panchen Lama, 401
P‘an-ku, 362
Panzhihua, 311, 315, 322, 324, 366
Paracel Islands, 53
Parasites, 195
Peach Blossom Hotel, 248–50
Pearl River, 3, 87, 88, 197, 217
Peking. See Beijing
Peng Dehuai, 188–92
People's Daily, 189–90
People's Liberation Army (PLA), 107, 113, 188, 190
People's Park, 75
People's Theatre, 173, 186–7, 188
Perucia Dam, 244
Pickering, J.V., 134
Pictorial History of China Navigation Company Limited, 412
Pidgin English, 74–5
Pioneer (ship), 268–9
Plagues, 138
Plant Memorial, 274–6
Plant, Cornell, 265, 267, 268–74, 337, 345, 411
Poetry, 217–18
Policemen, 72, 79, 119–20, 388–9, 393–5
Pottinger, Sir Henry, 143
Princess Jeannie (ship), 91
Printing house, 389–91
Prosperous Kingdom Guest House, 65–6
Pu Lan Tian. See Plant, Cornell
Pu Ping, 312
Public Security Bureau, 28, 304, 330, 372
Putonghua (common speech), 26
Qian Shan Po, 277
Qianlong, Emperor, 155
Qin dynasty, 158
Qing dynasty, 15, 95, 121, 143, 174, 209, 276, 360, 375, 376, 379
Qingdao, 220
Qinghai province, 33, 245, 333, 343, 374, 393
Qiyang, 143
Qumar stream, 351
Qutang Gorge, 271
Rabe, John, 133
Rafting expeditions, 353–9
Railway Protection Movement, 207, 209
Railways, 57–61, 129, 205–10, 370
Ransomes and Rapier, 59
Red Basin, 225, 265, 294, 295, 375
Red Guards, 201, 275, 340, 383
Red tea, 180
Regal China Company, 258
Renmin Wenbao, 169
Retention basins, 158
Rice industry, 184
Riding the Dragon's Back (Bangs & Kallen), 412–13
River of Golden Sand, 295, 299, 350, 352, 353, 358
River pilots, 36
River to Heaven, 345, 350–52, 353
Rock, Joseph, 127, 302, 332–34, 338, 340, 412
Rocks 271
Rolls-Royce cars, 136–7
Rose Island, 107
Russell & Co., 177
Rustomjee, Heerjeebhoy, 177
Sailing Through China (Theroux), 408
Sampans (small boats), 47, 300, 306
Sand Pebbles, The (McKenna), 286, 410
Sandouping, 229, 231, 232–3, 245
Sanxia, 169
Satellite communications, 309–10
Schistosomes, 195
Science and Civilisation in China (Needham), 410
Second Opium War, 204
Seeds of Change (Hobhouse), 412
Sexual morals, 145–6, 320, 332, 334–5, 378
Sexually transmitted diseases, 334–5
Shadwell, Charles, 50
Shanghai Down Express, 12
Shashi, 244
Shen-nung, Emperor, 363
Shennong Stream, 289, 290, 291
Shenyang, 216
Shigatse, 401
Shigu, 3–4, 20, 359, 362, 365, 373
Shimantan Dam, 240
Ship locks, 255–6
Shipai, 232
Shippee, Margit, 355
Shipwrecks, 44–5
Shun, Emperor, 363
Shutung (ship), 269
Sichuan Corporation for International Cultural Development, 371
Sichuan province, 213, 226, 295, 297, 313, 314, 371, 377
Signal stations, 272–3,299–300
Sikkim 383
Silk Road, 313
Single Pebble, A (Hersey), 230, 254, 408
Singsong girls, 139–40
Sixteen Points for the Cultural Revolution, 201
Smedley, Agnes, 215
Soochow Creek, 72
South China Sea, 54
South Manchurian Railway, 129
Space programme, 309–10
Sperling, E., 134
Spratly Islands, 53
Standard Guide Book to Shanghai, 412
Star TV, 309
Stilwell, ‘Vinegar Joe’, 287
Su, Mr, 67–9
Subways, 81
Suez Canal, 179
Sui dynasty, 100
Suifu, 295
Sun Yat-sen, 51, 125, 211, 215, 225, 228
Sun Ziming, 330
Sung dynasty, 100
Swimmers, 194–203
Szechuan province, 284
Taco Bell, 213
Tactical Pilot Charts (TPCs), 30–31, 409
Taipan (company chief), 63, 65, 75, 86, 89
Taiping Rebellion, 121n, 134n, 142
Taipings, 121
Taipingxi, 232
Tang dynasty, 100, 114, 254, 330
Tang, Mr, 370–71, 374, 396, 397, 400
Tanggula township, 402–3
Tannu-Tuva, 381
TCBY store, 212–13
Tea industry, 166–7, 170, 173–86, 380–81
Tea-making process, 181–2
Tectonics, 367
Telegraph cable, 58n
Television, 309
Tempe, Arizona, 116
Ten thousand li Yangtze (painting), 10, 14–23
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 48
Theacea plants, 174
Theroux, Paul, 408
Thistle and the Jade, The (Keswick), 412
Three Gorges, 25, 26, 29, 97, 225, 226n, 228, 235, 243–4, 266, 287–9, 345, 366
Three Gorges Dam, 19, 164, 169, 219, 223, 225, 226–46, 249–53, 255, 257–62, 276–7, 371
Three Gorges Hotel, 247–8
Three Gorges Project Corporation, 249, 259
Through the Yangtze Gorges or, Trade and Travel in Western China (Little), 411
Tiananmen Square, 235, 239, 379
Tianjin, 131
Tibet, 322, 356, 369–70, 373–6, 379–407
Tibetan foothills, 303
Tibetan people, 278–9, 322–3, 325, 383–91
Tibetan Plateau, 150, 225, 295, 345, 351, 382, 396, 406
Tientsin, 95
Tiger Leaping Gorge, 327, 330, 346–9, 356, 366
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, 132, 134
Tolley, Admiral Kemp, 410–11
Topographical maps, 30–31
Trackers, 267, 268, 277, 279, 289–90
Travel Survival Guide to China, 409
Trobriand Islanders, 334
Tsampa (Tibetan food), 380, 396
Tuotuo stream, 322, 340–41, 374
Tuotuoheyan bridge, 404, 406–7
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 236, 241
ur-Chinese, 25
Ürümqi, 216
Van Slyke, Lyman, 408
Vinegar industry, 97–9
Wahnsien Incident of 1926, 283–5
Walker, Caroline, 411
Wallich, Nathaniel, 178
Wang Hui, 10, 14, 15–16, 20, 325, 352, 405
Wang-ching, 95
Warlords, 284–5
Water snakes, 194–5
Weale, Putnam, 85n
Wen Li Chang Jiang (painting), 10, 14–23
Whangpoo Park, 85
Whangpoo River, 48–9, 52, 56, 66, 78, 84, 91, 94
Whangpoo River Tide Gauge, 48
Widgeon, HMS, 285
Williams-Ellis, Clough, 63
Wilson, Ernest, 337
Wind Moving Pagoda of Anqing, 154–60
Wong How Man, 351
Woodcock, HMS, 268
Woodlark, HMS, 268
Woosung Bar, 48–53, 58, 205, 226, 407
Woosung Fort, 110
Woosung Road Co. Ltd, 59
Worcester, George, 270, 301, 409
World Bank, 165, 233, 241, 251
Wuhan, 26, 130, 154, 155, 157, 191, 195, 196, 198n, 199, 201, 202–5, 209, 211–17, 221, 237, 245, 267, 281, 287, 366
Wuhu, 124
Wuliangye distillery, 297–8
Wupans (small boats), 47
Xiamen, 216
Xiao-an, 79
Xikang province, 375, 377, 379
Xiling Gorge, 229, 257n, 268, 272, 273
Xing Guo Hotel, 65
Xinjiang province, 245
Xishuangbanna, 327
Xu Xiake, 350
Xu Xiaoyang, 370–74
Xuan Ke, 329–30
Xuan-tong. See Pu Yi
Ya‘an, 378
Yang Sen, 284–5
Yang Shangkun, 91, 198, 199–200
Yangshuo, 327
Yangtze – Nature History and the River (Van Slyke), 408
Yangtze Dam. See Three Gorges Dam
Yangtze Entrance Large Automatic Navigation Buoy, 33, 35
Yangtze First Bridge, 122–4, 202, 281
Yangtze furnaces, 281
Yangtze Patrol (Tolley), 410–11
Yangtze Reminiscences (Torrible), 411
Yangtze Valley and Beyond, The (Bird), 411
Yangtze Valley Planning Office, 245
Yangtze, Yangtze (Dai Qing), 239, 411
Yangzi River, The (Bonavia), 409
Yanshiping, 403
Ye, Dr, 183–6
Yellow Emperor, 362–3
Yellow River, 3, 11, 25, 101, 150, 152, 244n, 293
Yen-yu Stone, 271
Yi people, 301, 303–5, 307–8, 325
Yibin, 295, 313, 344, 350, 358
Yichang, 19, 29, 220, 226, 229, 229, 237, 244, 247–9, 253, 262, 265, 274, 281
Yongning, 303
Young Pioneers 360
Younghusband, Sir Francis, 375–6, 376, 377
Yu Kehua, 97–9
Yu Shan Mountain, 287
Yü the Great, 4, 158, 214, 263–4, 287, 363–5, 366, 367
Yuelong Xueshan, 326–7
Yunnan province, 213, 228, 295, 313, 314, 322, 325, 327, 337, 340, 365
Zhang Zu Long, 56–7
Zhao Erfang, 377
Zhengjiang, 94, 96–117, 131, 143
Zhengjiang Museum, 104, 111–12
Zhong Shan roads, 125
Zhongbao Island, 231, 258, 261
Zhou Enlai, 148, 257, 313, 314
Zhou Peiyuan, 239