The Great Wall : China Against the World 1000 BC-2000 AD

Picador, UK, 2006. Hardcover. As New/As New. Hardcover. 411 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador, UK, 2006. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in as new condition and comes in as new dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book looks behind the modern mythology of the Great Wall to uncover a 3000 year history far more fragmented and far less straightforwardly illustrious than its crowds of visitors imagine. The story of the Wall winds through that of the Chinese state and of the frontier policy that defined it, through the lives of the millions of individuals who supported, criticized, built and attacked it. It is time to see the Wall less as it is now - a great tourist attraction, an impressive piece of engineering - and more as it has been throughout its monumental history: a symbol that reveals China's sense of itself, and of the outside world. *** Quantity Available: 4. Category: History; China; ISBN: 0330422413. ISBN/EAN: 9780330422413. Inventory No: 08070169.. 9780330422413