CHINA
(See also Chinese [Language]; Chinese [People]; Lahu [Language]; Taiwan)
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
100-year-old fire extinguished: g96 8/22 28
abortion: g88 4/8 26; g87 4/8 4
agriculture: g 4/07 30
ducks and chickens fight locust plague: g01 5/8 28
“green great wall”: g 7/06 29
mechanical harvesters: g97 6/22 28-29
soil loss: g86 9/22 10-11
ancient irrigation system a marvel: g93 2/22 21
animals:
panda born in captivity: g87 1/22 30
Père David’s deer species: g86 12/22 30
reducing rat population: g86 5/22 30
species endangered by hunting: g91 9/8 29
Tibetan red deer rediscovered (1998): g98 10/22 29
archaeology:
noodles: g 10/06 30
oldest map showing distances: g99 3/8 29
temple similar to ziggurats of Mesopotamia: g97 11/8 28-29
terra-cotta army (Xi’an): g05 12/8 21; g01 5/8 29
world’s oldest printed ad: g02 6/22 28-29
astrology: g90 6/22 30
astronomy:
supernova observed (1054): g96 1/22 8; g92 3/22 5
automobiles: g 10/13 3; g05 1/22 28; g05 5/22 29; g04 9/8 28; g94 11/8 28
beggars: g94 3/8 28
Beijing:
manhole covers stolen: g96 4/8 28
one dog per household policy: g 9/07 21
war against houseflies: g93 3/8 28
bicycles: g89 7/8 29
birth control: g87 5/8 30
children and youths:
addiction to Internet gaming: g 8/06 19
morality: g99 7/22 29
crime:
human trafficking: g 6/11 29
Cultural Revolution:
experience of member of Red Guard: w95 6/15 7-8
customs at death:
attendants buried with kings (ancient): sh 53
jade cicada in mouth of corpse: g87 9/22 23
department stores:
improving service: g89 6/8 29
desert: g 7/06 29; g05 1/8 6; g01 1/22 28-29; g86 3/22 10
divination: sh 82-83
Shang dynasty: sh 83
drugs: g92 8/22 28
heroin: g94 4/22 5
earthquakes:
2008: mrt article 40
Liaoning Province: g86 8/8 4
northern China (1989): g90 1/22 28
Tangshan (1976): g94 1/8 10-11; w87 1/15 21-22; g86 8/8 4
Yunnan Province (1970, 1988): g89 2/22 29
economy:
billionaires: g 10/08 30
personal income and expenses: g92 9/22 29
families:
concern over child rearing: g98 2/22 29
disintegration: g95 12/22 29
law on care for aging parents: g 9/14 3
Five Classics: g05 5/22 19
food:
bird’s-nest soup: g95 6/22 28; g87 6/22 29
cooking: g88 5/8 24-26
exotic wildlife: g00 11/8 29
rat steaks: g86 5/22 30
shortage (1988): g89 2/8 29
gardens: g97 4/8 6
government:
comments by Premier Zhao Ziyang on peace prospects: w86 10/1 15
encourages reporting corruption: g89 5/8 29
Great Wall: g04 11/22 28; g86 5/22 25-27
effect of planting 300 million trees: g95 6/8 29
health and disease:
AIDS: g90 9/8 28-29
obesity: g 5/06 14
tobacco-related deaths: g99 11/8 32
history:
beginning: g98 11/22 29
Ch’in dynasty: g86 5/22 25-27
Ch’un Ch’iu period: g90 9/8 25
Han dynasty: w09 1/1 23; sh 170-171
legend of Yellow Emperor: sh 36-38
link with Mesopotamia: g97 11/8 28-29
Ming dynasty: g 9/13 14-15
Mongol invasion (13th century): g 5/08 13-15
travels of Marco Polo: g04 6/8 23-27
travels of Zheng He: g 9/13 14-15
Warring States period: sh 161-163; g86 5/22 25
homeless people: g88 3/8 4
illiteracy: g91 4/8 28; g90 9/22 29
industry:
bricks from garbage: g94 8/22 28; g87 8/22 30
printing: g02 6/22 29
ink: it-1 1201
jade: w04 9/15 29; g87 9/22 23-24
Li River: w04 3/15 8-9; g87 11/22 15-17
medicine:
blood donations required by law in Shanghai: g89 7/22 29
extracting bullet relieves 64 years of headaches: g 3/08 27
plasma imports limited: g90 9/8 29
use of earthworm fluid: g86 6/8 30-31
use of powder made from ants: g88 9/8 30
military:
weapons sales: g89 11/22 29
morality: g 4/07 3
unwed mothers and couples: g 8/13 3
youths: g99 7/22 29
mythology:
creation: sh 44-45
Flood: w92 1/15 6; sh 50-51
golden age in days of Huang-Ti: sh 36-38
Mesopotamian origins: sh 51
names: g 4/08 30
problem of similar: g96 4/8 28-29
New Year’s celebrations: g86 12/22 20-21
pollution: g 3/13 3; g88 5/8 4
water pollution: g 5/07 11; g97 4/8 28
population: g01 11/8 28; g95 12/8 28-29; g94 10/22 29; g89 8/8 29
birthrate: g93 10/8 29
gender imbalance: g 10/07 30; g03 10/8 29
older people: g97 1/22 28
one-child policy: g87 5/8 30; g86 10/8 29
pornography: g 3/12 28; g86 12/22 4
railway from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet: g 3/07 22
railway from Shanghai to Pudong airport (maglev): g 11/08 24-25
religion: g 1/08 30; w03 12/1 3; jv 489-490
ancestor worship: sh 53
aphorisms predated by Bible: pc 17
attitude toward: sh 184-185
Bible praised: la 11
Bible publishing: g 11/11 29; g 9/08 29; g99 8/8 29
Bible translations: w09 6/1 10-11; g 11/07 30; ba 12-13
Buddhism: pc 7
Christendom’s missionaries: re 263; g94 11/8 22-23
churches: g91 6/22 28
Confucianism: pc 7; ie 12; sh 161-164, 174-186; g89 5/8 19-20
folk religion: g89 5/8 20-21
images punished: w88 8/1 3
immortality of the soul: sh 53
nominal Christians: g89 6/22 28
no personal God: pc 7-8, 12; sh 185-186
rain ritual: sh 78-79
role of jade: g87 9/22 23-24
Taoism: pc 6-7; ie 11-12; sh 161-174, 184-185; g89 5/8 20-21
rulers:
Ch’in dynasty: g05 12/8 21; g86 5/22 25-27
Han dynasty: sh 170-171
Huang-Ti (Yellow Emperor): sh 36-38
Jin (“Golden”) dynasty: g 5/08 13-14
“Period of the Great Ten”: sh 50-51
Qin Shi Huang: w14 1/1 4
Shang kings: sh 53
Sung dynasty: g 5/08 14-15
Yü: sh 50
Yuan dynasty: g 5/08 13, 15
schools:
students in Japan: w89 6/15 28
science:
space program: g02 10/22 28
Shanghai: g94 1/8 10-11; g88 3/8 4
blood donations required: g89 7/22 29
garbage disposal: g87 8/22 30
silkworm culture: it-2 943; g 6/06 24
smoking: g00 8/22 28; g99 11/8 32; g96 1/22 19-20; g95 5/22 4-6; g89 7/8 11
soccer violence: g89 4/22 3
suicides: g89 11/22 28
tea: g89 9/8 14-15, 19
Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River: g99 6/8 28-29
violence: g89 4/22 3
wars:
Opium Wars: re 263; g89 9/8 19; g88 12/8 6
water:
lack of clean: g 5/07 11
overpumping: g86 11/22 7
weather-related disasters:
drought, typhoons, floods (2007): g 8/08 30
flood and drought (1988): g89 2/8 29
yin and yang: sh 82-83, 170-171; g89 5/8 20
Jehovah’s Witnesses
ban (1958): jv 490
colporteurs: jv 489
conventions: jv 454
early witnessing: jv 418-421, 441, 535
growth: jv 490
missionaries: jv 489-490, 535
modern history: jv 489-490
persons:
Downing, Miss C. B.: jv 418
Hollister, Robert R.: jv 421, 423
John, Wilfred: w93 5/1 29-30
Jones, Stanley E.: w19.07 3-4, 6; jv 489-490
King, Harold G.: w19.01 24; w15 2/15 31-32; jv 243-244, 489-490; g93 9/22 9-10
Lew, Ti Himm: jv 489
Mackenzie, Fanny: jv 423-424
Oates, Hector: yb13 92-93; jv 455-456
Paton, Fred: yb13 92-93; jv 455-456
Randle, Horace: jv 418
Yuen, Nancy: w19.07 5-6; jv 490
places:
Shanghai: w93 5/1 29-30; jv 454
publications:
brought from Myanmar (Burma) (World War II): yb13 92-93; jv 455-456
radio broadcasts: jv 489
service experiences:
Bible students who return to China: yb00 64
Chiang Kai-shek witnessed to: yb13 93; jv 456
visits by—
Russell, C. T.: jv 419-420, 489