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245 14 $aThe Great Wall :$bChina against the world, 1000 BC-AD 2000 /$cJulia Lovell.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$cc2006.
300 $axvii, 412 p., [12] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Great Britain : Atlantic Books, 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-406) and index.
500 $aIncludes sections on the Mongols and the Song Dynasty.
505 0 $aWho made the Great Wall of China? -- Why walls? -- The long wall -- Han Walls: Plus ça change -- Shifting frontiers and decadent barbarians -- China reunited -- Without walls: the Chinese frontiers expand -- The return of the barbarians -- A case of open and shut: the early Ming frontier -- The wall goes up -- The great fall of China -- How barbarians made the Great Wall -- Translating the Great Wall into Chinese -- The Great Wall, the great mall and the great firewall -- Principal characters -- Chronology of dynasties -- Significant dates in Chinese history and Wall-building.
520 $aThis is a history of the epic story of the Great Wall of China that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millennium B.C. to present day. Over 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China has made an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: China's age-old sense of being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the barbarians at its borders. But behind the Wall's intimidating exterior, and the myths that have clustered around it, is a complex history that has both defined and undermined China. It is this history that the author explores here, an epic tale that stretches over two millennia as it follows the rise and fall of the great Chinese ruling dynasties. Full of astonishing details and extraordinary characters from emperors to engineers, statesmen to soldiers, this book helps those who want to understand China's past, present, and future.
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