Heinz-Murray 2E.book

Index 497

War riors
Central Asian, 78, 79
women, 93–94
Wat er, 33 , 2 00
Water control
Bali, 33–34
Grand Canal, 19–21
Wat Phra Rama, 398
Wat Po, 405, 407
Wa t schools, 405
Watson, Rubie, 289
Wat Songdharma Kalyani, 407
We a l t h
He lineage, 282
in Shang dynasty, 248–249
Weather, Tambora eruption
and, 25–26
Weidenreich, Franz, 35
Wei dynasty, Japan and, 301,
302
Wei River Valley, 53, 54
We i z h i, 301
We n , 244
Wenchuan, 17
We n m i n g , 67
Western Zhou dynasty, 235,
252
Wet-rice (padi) cultivation,
11(illus.), 13, 30,
31(illus.), 32, 122, 123,
300, 347
“What Should Happen but
Never Does” (Jha),
187(illus.)
Wheat cultivation, 28
Wheeler, Mortimer, 383
White Hmong (Hmong Glor),
120, 121
White Lotus Society, 273
White Rajas, 415, 460–461
Widows, in India, 186, 188
Winjan, 403
Wives
of Akbar, 181
Hmong, 132–133
Wo m e n
in Central Asia, 93–94
in Confucian China,
288–290
education of, 293–294

foot binding of, 290–293

in Heinan court, 320–325

Hmong, 131–33

in Indian society, 179,

181–188

in Korea, 350–352, 362

in samurai culture, 334

in Southeast Asia, 372

in Theravada Buddhism,

407–408

Wong Jei, 63

Wood, Frances, 90

Woo Oek Ju, shamanism in,

350–352

World Bank, on tribal societ-

ies, 110

World Council of Indigenous

People, 111

World Heritage Sites, Kogu-

ryo as, 237

Worldview, Hindu-Buddhist,

195

World War II, 7, 237, 366, 371

Writing

Brahmi, 65–67, 383

Chinese, 41, 68–71, 242,

262

in Japan, 71–72, 321

in Korea, 72–73, 347, 355,

361–362

sacredness of, 57–59

Sanskrit, 5

Wu, Empress, 272–273

Wu Cheng’en, Journey to the

We s t , 88–89, 236

Wu Chinese, 55

Wu Ding, 248

Wu Lien-teh, on poppy pro-

duction, 125–126

Xavier, Francis, 444

Xia dynasty, 235, 246

Xi’an (Xian), 13, 20, 260

Xiang Chinese, 55

Xiao (filial devotion), 269,

276, 277

Xie (Hsieh), 19, 20

Xinjiang, 85

and People’s Republic of

China, 100–102

Xiong, Xang Mao, 133

Xiong clan, 127

Xiongnu (Hsiung-nu), 17–18,

83, 84, 86, 87, 93, 94,

95(illus.)

Xuanzang, 78, 269

in India, 59–60, 167, 208

travels of, 61–62, 87–89

Xu Can, 294

Yab-Yum, 216

Yadavas, 177, 178

Ya k s, 7 8

Ya k s a , 3 5 1

Yakushiji Yoichi Motoichi,

331, 332

Yama (death), 194, 195

Yamatai, 301

Yamato, King of, 303

Yamato Peninsula, 299

Ya m a t o R ive r, 2 9

Ya m a t o s t a t e

clans in, 303–304

reforms of, 318–320

Shinto in, 304–313

Ya m a t o To t o h i M o m o s o,

303

Yamazaki, Masakazu, 4

Ya mu n a R ive r, 2 3

Yangban, 360

Ya n g c l a n , 1 2 7

Yangzi Delta, 302

Yangzi (Yangtze) River, 19,

20, 49, 54

Yao Mien language, 53

Yashodhara, 210

Yato no kami, 305

Yayoi Period (Japan), 301,

302–303, 304

Ye l l o w R i v e r. See Huanghe

River

Ye l l o w S e a , 2 0

Yellow Sea Interaction Sphere,

347

Ye X i a n’ e n , 2 8 0

Yin, 246

Yin-yang, 288

Yi Sunsin, 364, 365

Yomei, 315

Yo s h i d a Ke n k o, 3 3 7