by James Palmer
Hai Rui Dismissed From Office (play)
Haicheng earthquake (1975)
Hakka people
Han Chinese
Han Song (blogger)
He Jianguo (earthquake survivor)
He Long, General
Hebei province
Henan people
Hiroshima, compared with Tangshan earthquake
Hmong people
Ho Chi Minh (prime minister of Vietnam)
Hoover, Herbert
‘the howling song’
Hu Jintao
Hu Keshi (head of SSB)
Hu Yaobang (politician)
Hua Guofeng: as Chairman; character; congratulates Haicheng team; death; Mao’s funeral address; as placeholder; plot against Gang of Four; resignation; rise to power; slogans; visits Mao Zedong; visits Tangshan city
Huang Tianhui (militia commander)
hukou (residence permit) system
Hunan province
‘Hundred Flowers’ campaign
Hungarian Revolution
hutongs
I Ching
India, Maoism and Naxalites
Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami (2004)
Japan: Anti-Japanese War; aid to China
Jiang Dianwei (earthquake survivor)
Jiang Qing (wife of Mao): anti-Deng campaign, see Gang of Four; arrest; attacks Zhou with art; character; ‘Criticise Lin Biao, Criticise Confucius’ campaign; criticism of; death; and Gang of Four; and Mao Zedong; see also Gang of Four
Jiang Zemin (politician)
Kadeer, Rebiya (businesswoman)
Kailuan mining complex; see also mining
Kang Sheng (intelligence chief)
Kanto earthquake, Japan (1923)
Katrina, Hurricane
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kim Il Sung (prime minister of N. Korea)
Klein, Naomi
Korean War
Lao She (writer), suicide
Lee Kuan Yew (prime minister of Singapore)
Lei Feng (soldier)
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Liberation News
Li Chi
Li Hongyi (earthquake survivor)
Li Xiannian
Li Yulin (mining official)
Li Zhisui (Mao’s physician)
Liao Bingxiong (cartoonist)
Liaoning province
Lin Biao, Marshal
Lin Liguo (son of Lin Biao)
Lisbon earthquake (1755)
‘The Little Red Book’ (Mao Zedong)
Liu Shaoqi
Liu Xinwu (writer)
Liu Yingyong (SSB)
Long Baoyin (Guizhou police officer)
Long March
Long Wenfei (Niulang Party secretary)
Long Zhengyun, persecution of
Lu Guilan (earthquake survivor)
Luo Ruiqing, General
Lysenko, Trofim (‘peasant scientist’)
Ma Tianshui (head of Shanghai Garrison Command)
Malenkov, Georgy
Manchu people
‘Mandate of Heaven’ (tianming)
Mandela, Nelson
Mao Anqing (son of Mao Zedong)
Mao Anying (son of Mao Zedong)
Mao Xinyu (son of Mao Anqing)
Mao Yuanxin (nephew of Mao Zedong)
Mao Zedong: character; choice of successor; criticism of; and Cultural Revolution; death; and Deng Xiaoping; early life/rise to power; embalming of; funeral; and Gang of Four; and Hua Guofeng; ideology; ill-health; images of; and Jiang Qing; legacy/nostalgia; and Lin Biao; and Liu Shaoqi; mausoleum of; and military; personality cult; reactions to death of; and re-writing of history; sums up life’s work; and Wang Hongwen; and Zhou Enlai
Maoism; see also Mao Zedong
Marxism
May Fourth Movement (1919)
Mencius (philosopher), impulse to rescue
Mercalli scale
‘Million Heroes’
mining: Kailuan mining complex; miners; and Tangshan earthquake
Ministry of Culture
Mo Yan (novelist)
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Mongolia
Monte Cassino
Muldoon, Robert (prime minister of New Zealand)
Muslims
Nagy, Imre (Hungarian politician)
Nanchang referendum
Nanjing, student protests (1976)
Nanjing massacre (1937)
National Bureau of Statistics
National Day (1 October)
Nationalists/nationalism
natural disasters: Banqiao dam disaster (1975); panic of leaders following; see also earthquakes
Naxalites
Nie Er (composer)
Nina, Typhoon
Niulang
Nixon, Richard, visits Beijing (1972)
October Revolution
One Child Policy
Paris Commune
Peng Dehuai, Marshal
Peng Zhen (mayor of Beijing)
People’s Daily
People’s Liberation Army (PLA); and Red Guards; rescue efforts following Sichuan earthquake; rescue efforts following Tangshan earthquake; save Douhe dam; and Shadian incident
People’s Militia
‘Petofi clubs’
Phomvihane, Kaysone (prime minister of Laos)
Pol Pot
Qian Gang (writer)
Qiao Guanhua (politician)
Qin Shihuangdi, Emperor
Qing Ming (‘Festival of Brightness’)
Qinglong county: disaster management /earthquake prediction team; preparedness for Haicheng earthquake; preparedness for Tangshan earthquake
Qinhuangdao city
Quan Yu (scholar), suicide
Quanzhou County massacre (1967)
Quincheng Prison
Ran Guangqi (head of Qinglong Party)
Raoyang
Red Flag (newspaper)
Red Guard Movement: background and motivation; denounces Western music; desecration of religious sites; division and civil war; ‘the howling song’; persecutions by; and PLA; ‘struggle sessions’; targets of; uniforms of; see also Cultural Revolution
religion/religious groups
Richter scale
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The (Shirer)
Rummel, R. J. (political scientist)
Russia, see Soviet Union
San Francisco earthquake (1906)
Schecter, Jerrold (editor of Time)
Sendai earthquake (11 March 2011)
Shaanxi earthquake (1556)
Shadian incident (1975)
Shanghai: attack on the Bund; and Gang of Four (power base); ‘January Storm’; Shanghai Garrison Command; Shanghai Revolutionary Committee
Shi Yunfeng (dissident)
Shih, Victor (political scientist)
Shijiazhuang city
shunkouliu (‘slippery rhymes’)
Sichuan province
Sichuan earthquake (16 August 1976)
Sichuan earthquake (12 May 2008); death toll; ‘dofu-paste schools’; magnitude; relief efforts; rumours following
Sino-Japanese War, see Anti-Japanese War
socialism
Song Binbin, meets Mao
Soong Qingling (wife of Sun Yat-Sen)
Soviet Union: compared with PRC; ‘Doctors’ Plot’; relations with PRC
Speer, Albert
Spring Festival
Stalin, Joseph
State Seismological Bureau (SSB); blames Gang of Four; Haicheng prediction; public mistrust of; search for epicentre of Tangshan earthquake; Tangshan conference and warnings (1975)
Sun Yat-Sen
‘Sweep Away All Cow-Demons and Snake-Spirits’ (Chen Boda)
Tahrir Square, Cairo
Taiwan
Tan Zuoren (dissident)
Tangshan city: airport used as medical centre; building style; as centre of/ and mining industry; Chen Boda visit (1967); earthquake museum; founding of; hospital for earthquake victims; Hu
a Guofeng visit (1976); memorial wall; orphanages; population; rebuilding of; resumption of industrial production; SSB conference; unemployment; see also Tangshan earthquake
Tangshan earthquake (28 July 1976): aftershocks; aid; damage to buildings; death toll; disposal of bodies; forced donations; effects of; effect on mines; films about; granary raids; international aid refused; looting and responses to; magnitude of, and energy release; mistaken for nuclear explosion; and politics/propaganda; precursors; prediction and monitoring prior to; remembrance day; relief efforts of PLA; rescue efforts of Tangshanese; rumours of cover-up; suddenness of; survival accounts; victim support; zones of intensity
Temple of Heaven, Beijing
Tian Han (playwright)
Tianjin city
Tiananmen incident (1976): mourning of Zhou Enlai; persecutions following; suppression of mourning
Tiananmen Square: flower theft; Great Hall; Mao meets Red Guards (1966); Mao proclaims PRC (1949); Mausoleum of Mao Zedong; Monument to the People’s Heroes; naming of; protests (1919); protests (1989); Zhou Enlai’s funeral; see also Tiananmen incident
Tibet; earthquakes of 1950 – 51; Yushu earthquake (2010)
‘Tomb-Sweeping Day’, see Qing Ming
Tsinghua University
Unit 8341
United States of America, relations with PRC
‘University of the Toilers of the East’
USSR, see Soviet Union
Utopia bookstore, Beijing
Wang Chengmin (SSB)
Wang Chunqing (disaster manager)
Wang Dongxing (security chief)
Wang Hongwen, arrest; character; death; rise to power; spies on Ye Jianying; see also Gang of Four
Wang Huaixiang (politician)
Wei Guoqing (military leader)
Wen Jiabao
Wen Jie (poet)
Wenchuan earthquake (2008), see Sichuan earthquake
Wenhui Bao (newspaper)
Whitlam, Gough (prime minister of Australia)
Witke, Roxane (anthropologist)
‘Workers’ Command Post’ group
World War II; see also Anti-Japanese War
Wu De (mayor of Beijing)
Wu Han (deputy mayor of Beijing)
Wu Zetian, Empress
Wuhan incident
Xi Chuan (poet)
Xiaojinzhuang (‘model village’)
Xing Lu (historian), mother of
Xingtai earthquake (1966)
Yan Xuetong (political scientist)
Yanan
‘Yang and Bai Anti-Party Group’
Yang Jisheng (scholar)
Yang Yuan (secretary of Tangshan Party)
Yang Zhikai (earthquake survivor)
Yao Cuiqin (earthquake survivor)
Yao Wenyuan; see also Gang of Four
Ye Jianying, General; at Mao’s deathbed; meeting with Li Xiannian; rise to power; spied on by Wang Hongwen
Ye Yonglie (writer)
Yonghegong Temple, Beijing
Yu Boren (diplomat)
Yu Jianrong (political scientist)
Yu Shen (Qinglong science committee)
Yu Xuebing (earthquake survivor)
Yuan Qingwu (miner)
Yuan Wuyi (earthquake survivor)
Yushu earthquake, Tibet (2010)
Zhang (Tangshanese railway worker), journey to Fengnan
Zhang Chunqiao; arrest; death; observes Tiananmen incident (1976); see also Gang of Four
Zhang Daguang (earthquake survivor)
Zhang Heng (mathematician)
Zhang Lei (writer)
Zhang Linzhi (minister of mining)
Zhang Qiuqiao (commissar)
Zhang Wenzhong (earthquake survivor)
Zhang Youlu (earthquake survivor)
Zhang Yufeng (Mao’s assistant)
Zhang Zhixin (dissident)
Zhang Ziyi (actress)
Zhao Fu (nurse)
Zhao Zhengkai (‘Bei Dao’)
Zhao Ziyang (politician)
Zheng Meipian (daughter of Zheng Nian), death
Zheng Nian (Nien Cheng, memoirist)
Zhongnanhai, Beijing
Zhou Chunlin (head of Shanghai Revolutionary Committee)
Zhou Enlai: character; death; funeral; and Mao; mourning for; popular affection for; protection of historical sites; see also Tiananmen incident
Zhou Rongxing (minister of education)
Zhu De, Marshal
Zhu Yinlai (mining student); earthquake rescue
Zhu Yuanzhang (Emperor of Hongwu)
Zhukov, Marshal Georgy
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