Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Manchuria, Japanese invasion of (1931), 188

Mandela, Nelson, 142, 152, 158

Manjusri (bodhisattva), 381

Mansour, Abdul, 271, 272

Mao Zedong:

as art subject, 112, 122, 123

and Chinese art, 103, 108, 109, 272

and Cultural Revolution, 119–24, 162

death of, 120–21

and “international friends,” 109

legacy of, 35

and Revolutionary Model Operas, 122

Mapplethorpe, Robert, 192

Maqhubela, Louis, 148

Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 118, 384

Marleni (ballerina), 19

Marrakech, Morocco, 8

Marsaja, I Gede, 398, 401

Marshall Plan, 42, 269, 411

Martin, Marilyn, 144–45, 149

Masango, Aubrey, 176

Masekela, Barbara, 142, 146, 174–75

Mashinee, Abdul Rashin, 280

Matamura, Marie Rose, 311–12

Ma Thanegi, 444, 448, 453, 455, 469, 471, 475, 476–77

Nor Iron Bars a Cage, 476

Ma Thida, 27, 444–45, 458, 464, 471, 472, 480

Mathieson, Dave, 479

Matisse, Henri, 214

Matlock, Jack F., 51

Matshoba, Mtutuzeli, 162

Mattawa, Khaled, 323

Mattos, Sergio, 423

Maung Tin Thit, 446, 475–76

Mautloa, Pat, 145

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 78

Mazin, Viktor, 78

McCarthyism, 22

McNamara, Robert S., 22–23

Medeiros, Luciana, 423

Medical Hermeneutics movement, 47

Mediterranean Sea, 211

Meherzad, Hafiz, 273

Meishugan (National Art Gallery), Beijing, 108

China/Avant-Garde exhibit, 109

Country Life Plan exhibit, 104–5

Gilbert & George show in, 126–27

Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, 293–94, 302

Merkel, Angela, 41

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 78

Metropolitan Museum, New York:

Chinese collection in, 184, 203

conservation of Asian art in, 193

and cultural exchange, 192, 203

exhibition of work from Taipei, 181, 182–83, 184, 185, 189–91, 193–96, 199–203

King Tut exhibit (1978), 184–85

Mexico, public protests in, 184

Michelangelo, 109

Michener, James, 300

Miller, George Bures, 291

Mills, John Atta, 430, 432

Ming dynasty, 375, 379, 382

Minghella, Anthony, 361

Mironenko, Serioja, 64, 65, 66

Mironenko, Vladimir, 61, 64

Misiano, Viktor, 55

Mitchell, Derek, 448, 454, 455, 457, 459, 461, 468

Mitrofanov, Georgi, 100

Miyajima, Tatsuo, 290

Moe Satt, 446–47

Mokamel, Kabir, 284

Moletsi, Andrew (pseud.), 147

Moloudzadeh, Makwan, 35

Molsami (Balinese woman), 403

Momba, Willie, 222, 224, 225

Mona Lisa (Leonardo), 194

Monastyrsky, Andrei, 47

Monet, Claude, Water Lilies, 291

Mongolia, 237–47

airag (fermented horse milk) in, 239, 240, 243

Bayanzag Flaming Cliffs in, 243

camels in, 243

description of, 238

elections in, 455

gay identity in, 33–34

gers (tent-like structures) in, 238–39, 243–44

irony in, 246

and Manchus, 381

monasteries in, 246

Naadam celebration in, 239–41

nomadism in, 242–44, 247

ortz (tepee) in, 245

Övörkhangai Province, 241, 242

reindeer people in, 245–46

roads in, 241

shamans in, 245

as symbol of the remote, 237

train ride to, 237–38

yaks in, 241–42

Monitor Group, 344

Moriconi, Italo, 409, 414, 423

Morocco, author’s visit to, 7–8, 9

Morrison, Toni, 27

Moscow:

artists in, 12, 13–15, 48–49, 54–58, 59, 60, 63, 69, 74–75, 85–86

billionaires in, 98

change in, 13, 15, 30, 56–58

First Gagarin party in, 73–74, 80

life in, 30

“paper architects” in, 27

Sotheby’s first sale of Soviet art in, 45, 49–56

VDNKh, 73, 101

Moscow Biennale, 57

Moscow Exchange, 84

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 56

Moth, The, 261, 483

“mountain wanderer syndrome,” 255

Mount Wutai, 381

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 22

Mthembu, Jackson, 175

Muhammad (prophet), Danish cartoons of, 352

Muhammad, Abdul Akbar, 340

Mukamakuza, Alphonsine, 315–17

Mukamana, Espérance, 308

Mukamana, Marianne, 312–14

Mukansanga, Beatrice, 311

Mukasarasi, Godeliève, 308

Mukhuba, Nelson, 172–73

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 56

Muniz, Vic, 408, 415, 424

Munyai, Albert Mbudzeni, 169–70

Murdoch, Rupert, 361

Murray, Brett, 175–76

Muslim Brotherhood, 351–52

Muslims:

in Myanmar, 458–64, 468, 481

polygamy among, 460

see also Islam

Myanmar, 443–82

absence of basic services in, 447–48, 451–52, 461, 469

artists in, 446–47, 474–75

blogging in, 471–72

Buddhist majority in, 444, 449, 458–59, 462, 464, 466–68, 481

censorship in, 443, 451, 461, 470–73, 479–80, 481

and China, 449, 458, 476

constitution of, 452, 456, 457–58, 482

Cyclone Nargis in, 457–58

economy of, 454, 469

education in, 451, 452–53

88 Generation in, 452

elections in, 443, 454–55, 456–58, 480–82

ethnic groups in, 451, 453, 458–64, 465, 466–70, 479, 481

expatriates from, 454, 471–72

Golden Rock shrine in, 465–66

government move to Naypyidaw, 450, 453–54

hope in, 443, 444, 480

idea of freedom in, 27

independence of, 444, 451, 455, 468, 469

individual states in, 469–70

Inle Lake guesthouse in, 477–79

international sanctions in, 443, 448–49

Inthar Heritage House in, 478

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in, 466

laws in, 457, 458, 463, 480

military junta in, 445–46, 448, 449, 451–52, 453, 455, 464, 465, 469, 472, 477, 481, 482

national identity in, 459, 463, 470

Plain of Temples (Bagan), 466–67

political prisoners in, 443–45, 457, 469, 472–73, 474, 476–77, 481

political reforms in, 445, 447, 448–49, 472

possible democracy in, 450, 451, 452, 455, 480, 482

poverty in, 449, 450, 463–64, 471

Rohingya people in, 458–62, 464, 468, 480–81

Saffron Revolution (2007) in, 444, 447, 449, 452, 462, 472