Empire of Lies
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Ding Zilin, Madam
Domenach, Jean-Luc
Dong Zhou Gong Jin
Dongzhou, peasant revolt and massacre in
Du Hongqui
Du Weiming
Dumont, René
Dutch travelers, in Borneo; in China
Dysentery
Eastern Turkistan, annexation by Qing dynasty
École Nationale d’Administration (ENA)
Éditions des Femmes
Engels, Friedrich; portraits and statues of
Enlightenment, the
Europe, creativity in; factories in; factories in China of; military might of; protests against capital punishment in; retirement benefits in
European Union
Falun Gong, in China; denunciations of; in Taiwan; in the United States; use of Internet by
Family Planning Commission
Feng Lanrui, Madam
Ferry, Jules
Festival of the Dead
Fong Lizhi
Ford Foundation
Formosa, conquest of; see also Taiwan
France, arms sales to China of; Chinese diaspora in; Chinese operas in; Christianity of; cuisine of; factories in; Industrial Revolution in; leftist intellectuals’ mythmaking about China; reporting on China in; Revolution in; sinology in; the Terror in; technology of; trade with China
Fudan University (Shanghai)
Fujian mountains
Fujian Province, baby-trafficking in; joining with Taiwan and Hong Kong of; missiles pointing to Taiwan in
Fuzhou, monks in; Paul Claudel in; university in
Gama, Vasco da
Gandhi, Rajiv
Gansu Province; poverty in
Gao, of Man Sum factory
Gao Xingjian, in exile in France
Gao Yaojie
Genghis Khan
Georgia, collapse of Communism in
Gide, André, Return from the USSR
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry
Global Magazine, The
Google
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Granet, Marcel
Great Britain, Chinese remittances from; Industrial Revolution in
Great Leap Forward
Guangdong Province; factories in; foreign investment and exports from; Zhongshan
Guangzhou, bank scandal in; dissident activity in; education in; factories in; fortunes made in; joining with Taiwan and Hong Kong of; migrations to; prostitution in; SARS in; Taishi protest
Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University
Guizhou Province; Guiyang; Maguan
Gulf states, Chinese remittances from
Han Dongfang
Han Qiui, Madam
Hangzhou Academy
Hao Lina, Madam
Harry Potter books, pirated versions of
Harvard University
Havel, Václav
Hawaii, Communist Chinese investment in
He Depu
He Qing
He Weifang
Hebei Province, Shengyou peasant revolt
Henan Province, AIDS in; falsified maps of; Luwan; Nandawu; Shangcai; Shijiahe; Wenlou; Zhengzhou
Hepatitis
Holzman, Marie
Hong Kong, book smuggling from; British rule of; Chinese diaspora in; compared to Shanghai; corruption in; democracy in; export earnings of; facing pressure from Beijing; factories in China of; the press in; as refuge; religion in; sociologists in
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)
Hoover Institution
Hu Jia
Hu Jintao
Hu Ping
Huang Jinqin
Huangpu River
Hubei Province
Hukou (family booklet)
Hunan; Television
Huntington, Samuel
India, attacked by Red Army; castes in; compared to China; creativity in; democracy in; heritage valued in; Kerala; poverty in; Zheng He’s visit to
Indonesia, democracy in; poverty in
Industrial Revolution
Inspector Maigret
International Red Cross
Institute of Religions
Institute for Rural Development (Beijing)
Internationale
Internet, as battlefield; censorship and jamming of; dissident postings on; reports from; used for anti-Japanese demonstrations; as weapon
Iraq, totalitarianism in
Islam, in China
Israel
Italy, factories in
Jambet, Christian
Japan; affronts to China of; army of; constitutional monarchy of; democracy in; economic success of; export earnings of; factories in; factories in China of; growth rates in; infrastructure in; protecting Taiwanese; in range of Chinese missiles; religion in; reparations to China of; retirement benefits in; as scapegoat; state reforms in; tradition valued in; unions in
Jesuits; architects; seventeenth-century French; seventeenth-century Italian; shaping views of China
Jesus
Jiang Liangjie
Jiang Qing, see Mao, Madam
Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
Jiang Zemin
Jiangxi mountains
Jiren
Jullien, François
Kahn, Hermann
Kaifeng, Jewish community in
Kangxi
Khmer Rouge
Kim Dae Jung
King, Martin Luther
Kissinger, Henry
Kristeva, Julia; About Chinese Women
Kuomintang
Lacan, Jacques
Lao-tzu
Laogaï (labor camp)
Lardreau, Guy
Leadership and Management Academy (Shanghai)
Lecomte, Louis, New Memoirs on the Present Situation in China
Lee Kwan Yu
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, Les
Lévi, Jean
Leys, Simon; The New Clothes of President Mao
Li, Old
Li Ang; The Butcher’s Wife
Li Changchun
Li Dan
Li Fan
Li Hongzhi
Li Lulu
Li Peng
Li Yuchun, Miss
Libération
“Liberty and Democracy” (website)
Liu Di,
Liu Fengyan
Liu Qing
Liu Xia
Liu Xiaobo
Locke, John
Louis XVI,
Lu
Ma Ying-jeou
Macciocchi, Maria-Antonietta
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mafia, stamped out
Magellan, Ferdinand
Malaria
Malraux, André, The Human Condition
Man Sum textile factory
Manchu, dynasty; empire
Mandela, Nelson
Mao, Madam
Mao Yushi; Give Freedom to Ones You Love
Mao Zedong, after; army of; brainwashing under; and Confucius; deaths under; education under; elections under; era; on eradicating Wild Grass; government of; industrial dreams of; leftist intellectuals’ love for; as librarian; Little Red Book; nuclear weapons and; portraits of; punishment of sexuality under; quotations from; repression of peasants under; and his “service of the people,”; sexual pursuits of; statues of; successors of; treatment of tourists during the time of; waning of appeal of
Maoism, and Confucianism; and control; and Falun Gong; fashionability of; nostalgia for; and production; as a replacement for religion; Sartre’s embrace of; in textbooks
Marx, Karl; The Communist Manifesto; portraits and statues of
Marxism; concept of alienation in
Maspero, Henri
Master Kong, see Confucius
McDonald’s
Mencius
Mexico, factories in
Michnik, Adam
Microsoft
Ming, Emperor
Ming dynasty
Mingguang factory
&n
bsp; Mo Yan, Red Sorghum,
Molière
Mongolia, and Emperor Qin; Inner Mongolia; wolf hunting in
Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Supergirl, see Supergirl
Montesquieu
Mount Wudang monastery
Myanmar, freedom fighters in
Nanjing municipality; massacre in
Napoleon Bonaparte
National Museum of History (Beijing)
National People’s Congress
Navarrete, Alphonse
Nazi Germany, death camps in; highways in; Holocaust; Jews in; 1938 Berlin Olympics; totalitarianism of
Nazism
Nestorianism
NGOs
North Korea, Chinese Communist Party support; monuments in
Nowak, Manfred
Olympic Gamesin Berlin; 1988 in Seoul; 2008 Summer in Beijing
Opium Wars of
Pagoda of the Phoenix
Pan Wei; The Myth of Democracy
Pan Xiuming
PEN
People’s Daily
Persia
Peyrefitte, Alain; The Chinese Tragedy; The Immobile Empire; rationalizations of; on Tiananmen massacre; When China Awakens, the World Will Tremble
Philippines, the, democracy in; freedom fighters in; exports to China of; factories in
Pimpaneau, Jacques
Pinochet, Augusto
Plato
Pneumonia, atypical, see SARS
Popular Democratic Party
Poland, collapse of Communism in; freedom fighters in
Presbyterian Church, in Taiwan
Protestants, in China; incarcerations of; in Taiwan
Pu Zhiqiang
Qin Shi Huangdi, Emperor, as tyrant
Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
Qinghai Province; Chala; Xining
Red Army
Red Guard
Religion, Chinese revival
Ricci, Matteo
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rolland, Romaine
Russia, democracy in; military might of
Russian Revolution
Ryckmans, Pierre, see Simon Leys
Sakharov, Andrei
San Francisco, Communist Chinese investment in
SARS, outbreaks of
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schipper, Kristofer
Sen, Amartya
Shaanxi Province; Baoji; base for early Communist Party; poverty in; Yanan
Shandong Province, birthplace of Confucius; forced abortions and sterilizations in; Linyi; newspapers in; Qufu
Shanghai municipality, compared to Hong Kong; ill-treatment of migrant workers in
Shanghai Opera
Shi Tao
Shih Ming-teh
Sichuan Province; single-child policy enforcement in
Singapore, British influence on; capital punishment in; Chinese diaspora in; corruption in; export earnings of; neo-Confucianism in; newspapers in
Solidarity
Sollers, Philippe; on perestroika
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
South Africa, freedom fighters in
South Korea; creativity in; dangers from Chinese Communist Party to; democracy in; economic success of; exports to China of; factories in; factories in China of; growth rates in; infrastructure in; 1988 Olympics; in range of Chinese missiles; religion in; unions in
Soviet Union; collapse of communism in; colonization by; communism in; corruption in; education in; gulags in; health care in; monuments in; support of China; technology of; totalitarianism of
Stalinism; French praise for
Stanford University, Hoover Institution
Straits Times
Sun Yat-sen
Supergirl
Taipei, rebellion; University
Taipei Institute
Taiwan, as affront to China; banned on Chinese Internet sites; under Chiang Kai-shek; Chinese bodies for medical students in; Chinese diaspora in; Chinese exiles in; commemorations of Tiananmen Square massacre in; corruption in; creativity in; dangers from Chinese Communist Party to; democracy in; as part of China; Daoism in; export earnings of; factories in; factories in China of; Falun Gong in; homosexuals in; lesbianism in; operas in; in range of Chinese missiles; recognition of; religion in; sociologists in; “spies” from
Tiananmen Square; anniversary of massacre in; anti-Japanese demonstrations in; Mao’s mausoleum in; massacre in; portraits displayed in
Tibet, annexation by Ming dynasty; banned on Chinese Internet sites; capital punishment in; dangers from Chinese Communist Party to; democracy in; divided into provinces; communist destruction of traditional practices in; and Emperor Qin; independence of; railway through; single-child policy unenforced in
Tocqueville, Alexis de; The Old Regime and the French Revolution; translated into Chinese
Triads
Tsinghua University (Beijing)
Tuberculosis
Uigars, capital punishment of; dangers from Chinese Communist Party to
Ukraine, collapse of Communism in
United Nations, Commission on Human Rights; Security Council
United States, affronts to China of; AIDS in; capital punishment in; Chinese bodies exhibited in; Chinese diaspora in; Chinese high skilled labor from; consumption of Chinese goods; creativity in; as democratizing force; factories in; factories in China of; foundations from; imports from China of; journalists from; military might of; missionaries from; New Right of; protecting Taiwanese; in range of Chinese missiles; religion in; support to China of; technology of
University of California, Berkeley
University of Shanghai, School of Intellectual Property
Vancouver, Communist Chinese investment in
Vandermeerschéon
Velvet revolution
Viénet, René
Vietnam, attacked by Red Army; dangers from Chinese Communist Party to
Voice of America
Voltaire, admiration of Confucius of; admiration of mandarins of; Essay on Universal History
Walesa, Lech
Wal-Mart
Wang
Wang, Bishop
Wang, Fei-Ling
Wang, Old
Wang Dan
Wang Yi
Wei Jingsheng
Wenzhou
White Clouds temple
World and China Institute (Beijing)
Wuer Kaixi
Wuyiang model village
Xian
Xiao Weibin
Xinhua (news agency)
Xinjiang, banned on Chinese Internet sites; democracy in; independence of; Muslims in
Yahoo
Yan
Yan Yfan (pseudonym)
Yang, Master
Yeltsin, Boris
Yis
Yu Jie
Yunnan
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yu
Zhao, Master
Zhao Ziyang
Zhejiang Province; Dongyang peasant revolt
Zheng
Zheng Enchong
Zheng Hi, Admiral
Zhou, Raymond
1 The first edition of this book was originally published in French in 2006 under the title L’anné du Coq: Chinois et rebelles.
2 Hu Jia was arrested on December 27, 2007.
Copyright © 2008 by Guy Sorman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sorman, Guy.
The empire of lies : the truth about China in the twenty-first century / Guy Sorman.—
American ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-594-03284-4
1. China—Politics and government—2002-2. China—Politics and government—1976-2002. 3. China—Social conditions—2000- 4. China—Social conditions—1976-2000. I. Title.
DS779.46.S68 2008
951.06—dc22
2008001916