Huntsman (Jr.) as US Ambassador to, 421
Korean War and, 1–4, 6, 22, 109, 115
legal system of, 360
life expectancy in (1960), 185
lunar calendar of, 167–168
Meeting of 7, 000, 21
Ministry of Education, 394
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 338
modern-day health care system of, 186
National Day (October 1), 94, 101
opportunity in, vs. in US, 365
self-rectification campaign and Anti-Rightist Movement, 35–37
Tiananmen Square uprising (1989), 422–426, 433
US economy vs. (1940s), 259–260
US emigration and “opening” of, 335–336
World Bank membership of, 401
See also Cultural Revolution; individual names of leaders
Pergamon Museum (Berlin), 429–430
Petrilla, Ken, 390
Pig Squad, 250–256, 260–265
Q
Qincheng Prison (Beijing), 74–75
Qingming Day (April 5, 1976), 320, 322
Qin Zhiqiang, 56, 79, 83
R
Radford, Jean, 382, 391
Radio Moscow, 284
Rape by Army Corps leaders, 274–279
Zhang (“Er Gou”) accused of, 269–272, 442–444
Rather, Dan, 424
Reader’s Digest (magazine), 334, 375
Reagan, Nancy, 367
Reagan, Ronald assassination attempt on, 366–367
election (1980) of, 345–346, 356
Huntsman (Jr.) and, 420
Red Army Long March of, 48, 59, 65, 268, 305
poem of, 64
song of, 63
Red Guards early violence by, 42–52
fighting in Xinjiang Province and, 66–67
formation of, throughout schools, 39–41
Great Networking movement of, 55–65
Mao’s encouragement of, 42, 45–46, 54–55
Outing Liu Movement by, 67–68
proletariat of, 50–51
qualification for membership in, 50–51
United Rebellion Headquarters, 58
Wang Enmao and, 65–66
in Xinjiang Province, 66–67
Ren Yi, 130–131
Research Center for Culture and History (Beihai Park, Beijing), 52
Revolution (1911), 3, 19, 52, 282
Revolutionary Rebels (“Rebels”) “Old Yi” and, 265
Revolutionary Committee, 55–56, 78
Shan’s father investigated by, 307–308
“struggle sessions” of, 44–46
“true Rebels” and “Loyalist” factions of, 77
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 391
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5
Roosevelt, Theodore, 282
Root, Russ, 408
Rosoff, Skip, 428, 430–432
Rue Hart, Beijing (street), 19
Ruijin, as Chinese Soviet Republic (Jiangxi Soviet) capital, 59
Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (RCMS), 185–186
Rural doctors. See Barefoot doctors
Russia October Revolution of 1917, 175, 182–183
Russo-Japanese war, 3
See also Soviet Union
S
St. Michael’s (Catholic Church, Beijing), 48
Sears, Jeannette, 357
Sears, Pete, 357
Selected Works of Mao Zedong, The, 112, 114, 256–257
Self-rectification campaign, 35–37
Shan, Bo (“LeiLei”) birth of, 389–390
immigration to US by, 399–400, 418–422
lifestyle in US, 434–435
move to Washington by, 404–406
Shandong Province agricultural work in, 69–71
Shan family in, 15–17
Shanghai Jiaotong University, 433
Shan, LeeAnn (daughter), 435
Shan, Weijian academic career of (See Asia Foundation; Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (BIFT); College entrance (China); University of California at Berkeley; University of San Francisco; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
banking career and return to China, 434–435
as barefoot doctor (See Barefoot doctors)
Beihai Park encampment by, 51–52
Beijing subway construction and, 72–73, 113
BIFT advanced studies and faculty role of, 335–336, 341–342, 380–381, 394
characterization of, 25, 32–33
childhood of, 4, 7–19, 23–33, 38–41
countryside movement assignment of, 79–92 (See also Inner Mongolia Construction Army Corps)
courtship and early marriage of, 339–341, 343 (See also Shi Bin)
Gobi return by (2005), 437–444
in Great Networking Movement, 55–65
home leaves of, while in Army Corps, 313–314
insomnia of, 194, 208–209
international travel by, for Wharton, 427–435
interviews of, during Tiananmen Square uprising (1989), 424–425
letters to Mao and Zhou from, 238–247, 293–294, 296
mother of (See Wang Wenli)
reading and self-teaching by, 46–47, 129, 223, 238–239, 256–260, 288, 317
in Red Guards, 42–52, 65–69
in Shandong Province, 69–71
United Nations interpreter program and, 337–340, 370–371
US immigration problems of, 418–422
US jobs of, 390–391, 400–402, 404–406
at Worker-Peasant-Soldier Middle School (Beijing), 71–76
See also Inner Mongolia Construction Army Corps
Shan Weimin (sister) at Beijing Industrial University, 306
child of, 399
countryside movement assignment of, 81, 99, 306
during Cultural Revolution, 49
education of, 23
in Shandong Province, 23, 69–71
Shan Weizhong (brother), 7, 17, 307–308
Shan Yi (father) biographical information, 14–19
on children’s assignments to countryside movement, 79–80
grandchildren cared for by, 399
illness of, 262
investigation of, 307–308
in Somalia and Chile, 306, 308
on son’s exile to Gobi, 99, 153
on son’s plans for US, 343
on son’s Red Guard involvement, 66–67
supplies sent to son in Inner Mongolia, 153, 195, 289
Shazhouba, well of, 62
Sheehan, Jeff, 407, 418–419
Shepard’s Citations (“Shepardizing”), 360, 375
Shevchenko, Arkady, 110
Shi, Bin academic work of, 387–388, 399
corporate career of, 434
courtship and early marriage of, 339–341, 343
earthquake (1976) and family of, 326, 336–337
immigration to US by, 382, 386–390, 394–396, 397–400, 418–422
mother of, 389
move to Philadelphia by, 408, 411–412
move to Washington by, 404–406
Shan’s first meeting with, 336–337
Shi Xiuling, 273–274
Short-wave radios in China, 283–284
in US, 347
Silk, Al, 408
Sloan School of Management, MIT, 406–411
Snakes, superstition about, 70
Snow, Edgar, 62
Song Binbin (Yaowu), 42
Song of Educated Youth (Ren), 130–131
Soviet Union command economy of, 159–160
German reunification, 427–432
“satellite” claims, 12–13
Soviet-China relations (1960s), 10–12, 22–23, 109–121
Soviet-China relations and Inner Mongolia, 87, 90
Soviet-China relations (1989), 423, 424
Soviet-US relations, 22–23, 138–139, 345
Sparling, Rand, 390–391
Sparrows, “Eradicate the Four Pests” campaign and, 8–10
Stalin, Joseph, 22, 46, 159–160
Steel production, 8–10
Steiner, Peter O., 381
“Struggle sessions,” 44, 48, 54, 65–66, 264, 431
T
Taiping Rebellion, 2
Taiwan, China’s relationship with, 6, 57, 349–350, 377
Tang (BIFT student), 334
Tangshan, earthquake (1976) in, 326, 336–337
Teece, David, 392, 395, 406, 410
Terekti, China-Soviet military clashes in (1969), 109–110, 121
Texas Pacific Group (TPG), 437
“There is a bridge on the Huangpu River” (poem), 320–321
Thurow, Lester, 408
Tiananmen Square April 5th (1976) Movement in, 317–325
uprising (1989), 422–426, 433
Tianjin, Army Corps boys from, 95, 97, 104–106
Touche Ross (Deloitte), 410
Trade Act (1974), 335–336
Truman, Harry, 2, 6
Tsinghua University, 282, 317–318
U
Ulanhu (deposed party secretary, Inner Mongolia), 179–180
United Nations interpreter program, 337–340, 370–371
United Rebellion Headquarters (Red Guards), 58
United States agricultural practices in China vs. (1960s–1970s), 123–124, 232
China’s economy vs. (1940s), 259–260
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), 368
Chinese students in, 282, 335–336
crime in, 358–359
Department of Commerce, 420–422
Halloween in, 355–356
Immigration and Naturalization Service, 418–422
Iran hostage crisis, 345
Korean War and, 6, 109
Labor Day in, 349
legal system of, vs. Chinese legal system, 360
McCarthyism and, 6
opportunity in, vs. in China, 365
private property concept in, 370, 376
St. Patrick’s Day in, 408
Shan in New York City and Washington, D.C., 369–373
Shan in San Francisco (See University of San Francisco)
US-China relations (1960s), 109–110
US-China relations (1970s), 213–215, 332
US-Soviet relations, 22–23, 138–139, 345
Vietnam War and, 138–139, 332
See also individual names of presidents
United States Military Academy (West Point), 416–417
University of California at Berkeley, 379–402 academics, 383–387, 390–391
Asia Foundation visiting scholar program and, 344
Earl F. Cheit Award, 396–397
founding of, 379–380
Haas School of Business, 383
housing at/near, 382, 391–392, 397
International House, 391–392
Mao’s support in Berkeley area, 382–383
Nobel laureates at, 380
Shan as teaching assistant at, 392, 396–397
Shan family at, 382, 386–390, 394–400
Shan’s application to, 377–378, 381
Shan’s arrival at, 382–383
Shan’s job at, 400–402, 404–406
Shan’s visits to Beijing from, 392–394
University of International Business and Economics. See Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade
University of Pennsylvania. See Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
University of San Francisco Asia Foundation visiting scholar program and, 344
business studies at, 351–352, 359, 369
Cassou-Shan Scholarship, 368–369
housing and students of, 348–350, 354–355, 357–359, 363–364
law studies at, 348, 350–351, 353–354, 359–360, 363, 374–377
Shan’s arrival in US for, 346–348
tuition for, 351–353, 364–365, 374
University of Washington (Seattle), 377
“Uprising of two airlines,” 249–250
Urat Qianqi (Inner Mongolia) Army Corps headquarters location and, 89, 175, 181–182, 438
travel to, 82–83
Urat Farm location, 124, 202, 438 (See also Inner Mongolia Construction Army Corps)
USF. See University of San Francisco
USSR. See Soviet Union
V
Vietnam War, 138–139, 332
Visiting scholar program. See Asia Foundation
Voice of America (VOA), 283, 284, 300, 312
Voynich, Ethel, 238–239
W
Wang Dacheng, 174, 301
Wang Decai, 297–298
Wang Dongxing, 328
Wang Enmao, 65–66
Wangfujing (Beijing shopping district), 42–44, 314–315
Wang Fuquan, 152
Wang Guangmei, 75
Wang Hongwen, 328–329
Wang Hui, 439–441
Wang Juyuan, 152
Wang Kang, 207–208
Wang Keli, 311, 329
Wang Kunlun, 10
Wang Lianfa, 84
Wang Lianxi, 199
Wang Shuangxi (“Er Xi”), 440–441
Wang Wenli (Shan’s mother) author’s education and, 23
biographical information, 13–19
on children’s assignments to countryside movement, 79, 81
exile to northeast labor camp, 99, 101, 158, 245, 306
grandchildren cared for by, 399
Shan’s letter to Mao and, 245, 247
son’s education and, 32–33
on son’s Red Guard involvement, 56, 66–68
Wang Xinquan, 196–197, 210
Wang Yingfan, 287
Wang Yuanbo, 68, 73, 79, 83
Water access to by Army Corps workers, 92, 95–96, 164, 265
for clay preparation, 218–219
health issues and, 201–202
for Inner Mongolia agriculture, 124–126
Weixin Golf Club, 438
West Point (United States Military Academy), 416–417
Wharton, Joseph, 404
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania China Economic Review, 426–427
Penn’s founding and, 403–404
ranking of, 417
as research institution, 412–413, 417
Shan’s departure from, 435–436
Shan’s hiring, 406–411
Shan’s housing and lifestyle in Philadelphia area, 411–415
Shan’s immigration problems and, 418–422
Shan’s international travel for Executive MBA/executive programs, 427–435
students of, 415–417
“White-haired blizzards,” 90
Williams, Haydn, 347, 361, 377–378, 381, 390
“Wind bends the grass low: cattle and sheep show” (ancient Chinese poem), 90
Worker-Peasant-Soldier Middle School (Beijing), 71–76
World Bank, 400–402, 404–406
World Table Tennis Championships (1971), 213–214
Wotou (steamed cornbread), 95
Wrestling, 104–106
Wu De, 322
Wu Han, 37–39, 53–54
Wuhan, armed clash in (1967), 78
Wulate (Urat/Urad, Inner Mongolia), Construction Army Corps at, 87
Wuliangsu, Lake boating on, 195–196
insecticides used in, 129
irrigation from, 124–126
as local resource, 241
reeds cut from, 139–154, 158, 443–444
size of, 139, 141–142, 149
Yihe Canal construction and, 161–171
Wu Shoumin, 350
Wu Xujun, 214
X
Xiao Geng, 298
Xie Jingyi, 318
Xie (“Little Xie,” messenger), 186–187,
301–302
Xinjiang Province, Cultural Revolution fighting in, 66–67
Xuan (political commissar), 113, 295
Xu Anqi, 295
Xu Haifeng, 398
Xu Shiwei, 381
Xu Shiyou, 131
Xu Wen, 349, 366
Y
Yan Chongjie, 104–105, 150, 152, 174, 210, 216–220, 223–225
Yang Shangkun, 53
Yang Shengchen, 149–150, 265
Yao Wenyuan, 37–39, 53, 328–329
Ye Jianying, 328
Yellen, Janet, 384–385, 390, 392, 396, 411
Yihe Canal, digging of, 161–171
Yi Kong (“Old Yi”) Nationalist air force and, 250–251, 255–256, 263–264, 266
Pig Squad of, 250–256, 260–265
return home by, 266
Yin (doctor), 152, 193, 196–203, 207–208, 210, 212
YMCA, 282, 391
Young Pioneers, 38–41
Young Professionals Program (World Bank), 401–402, 404–406
Yuan, L. Z., 381, 388, 390, 395
Yu (doctor), 88, 188–189, 192–193, 195–196, 211, 297
Yuyuantan, Lake, 29
Yu Zhuyun, 75
Z
Zhang Chunqiao, 320–321, 328–329
Zhang Guoliang, 278
Zhang Liling (pseudonym), 276–278
Zhang Songsen (political instructor) arrival of youth at Army Corps, 86, 88
brickmaking and, 221–222, 224–232
college entrance process and, 283, 290–291, 292–293, 295–296
“general” as nickname of, 115–116, 221–222
military drills by, 111, 112, 115
on rape accusations against “Er Gou,” 271, 272
Shan selected as barefoot doctor by, 186–187
Shan’s medical treatment of, 197–201
Shan’s request to visit father, 262
Zhang Yinghan (Construction Corps commander) arrival of soldiers and, 86, 88