Index 477Tibetan, 103
Vietnamese, 377, 463
Elizabeth I, 171, 446, 447
Emerald Buddha, 394–395
Temple of, 398, 399
Emperor of Heaven (Shangdi),
68
Emperors, 6, 61
in China, 244, 245
in Japan, 309, 311–312, 315
Empire of the spirit, 164–165
Empires, 443
Emptiness doctrine, Zen,
337–338
England. See British Empire;
Great Britain
English language, 43–44, 45, 48
Enlightenment, in Buddhism,
211, 271, 338, 436
Environment, 7, 8
Epidemics, Ganges and, 23
Era of Warring States (Japan),
331
Erlitou, 235
Estates, 326, 449
Ethnic groups, ethnicity, 106,
416
in East Asia, 236
identity and, 111–112, 115
in Southeast Asia, 371
tribal model of, 112–115
Ethnography, ethnology
in Borneo, 415–421
of Chinese peoples, 242,
244
Miao, 118–119
Ethnolinguistic groups,
111–112
Eurasia, 15
Europe, 3, 96, 467
Europeans, 36, 444
Examination system
in Chinese bureaucracy, 8,
238, 264, 266
in Choson bureaucracy,
359–360
Executions
Ashoka’s, 214
through seppuku, 332
Extremists, in China, 101–102
Factories, trade, 446, 448
Families
in China, 269, 276–285,
288
in East Asia, 237, 238
Hmong, 126–127, 131, 132
Indian commercial, 450
Japanese, 299, 308–309
Family Rituals (Zhu Xi),
278–279, 360
funerals in, 273–274
Famines
in Bengal, 449–450
and Tamobora eruption, 26
Fangyan, 57
Farming, farmers, 47, 49, 116
labor expenditures,
122–123
Fathers. See Patriarchy, patri-
lineality
Fatima, 220, 221
Fault lines, along Tibetan Pla-
teau, 15
Faure, David, 280–281
Faxian (monk), 60, 78
pilgrimages of, 167,
207–208, 268
A Record of the Buddhist
Kingdom, 167
Feasts
Hmong mortuary, 129,
130
Zhou dynasty kings, 250
Federated Malay States
(FMS), 460
Female purity complex, 182
Females. See Wo m e n
Fenghuang, Miao women in,
119(illus.)
Fergana, horses of, 83
Festivals
antipestilence, 305, 306
Japanese, 304, 305, 306,
312–313
Korean, 360
Thai religious, 400–403
Feudalism, Japanese warrior
culture and, 326–341
Filial devotion (Xiao), 269,
276, 277Fire
ordeal by, 183, 184, 188
sacredness of, 22(illus.), 92
First Ancestors, 282, 283
First Anglo-Burmese War
(1824), 462
First Emperor, and unification
of China, 260–263
First War of Independence,
172
Fitch, Ralph, 446
Five Confucian Classics, 263
Five Pillars, 391
Five Regions, 242, 244
Five Relationships Completed and
Perfected (play), 290
Five Renunciations, 404
Flooding, in China, 19–20,
283
Flower Adornment Sutra, 357
Flying Horse of Gansu, 83,
84(illus.)
Folk art
Indian, 187(illus.)
Korean, 352–353
Food
and caste system, 200
for Hindu gods, 205
in Thai festivals, 402
Foot binding, in China,
290–293
Foragers, 49, 122
Forbidden City, 99, 251
Foreigners. See British Empire;
Dutch, Dutch Empire;
French; Portuguese;
Spanish Empire
Fortifications, fortresses, 347,
444
Fort St. George, 448
Fort William, 449
47 Ronin, 327, 331, 332
Fossils, in China, 34–35
Foucquet, Jean-Francois, 278
Four Noble Truths, 211, 212
Four stoops, 32
France, 126, 457
Cambodia and, 464–465
in Indochina, 115–a16, 371
Vietnam and, 463, 464