The Great Wall. China Against the World. 1000 BC - 2000 AD.
by LOVELL, JULIA
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0330422413
- ISBN 13
- 9780330422413
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About This Item
New York.: Groove Press.. 2006.. Maps, black and white line and photographic plates, xvii + 412pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. "This book looks beyond the modern mythology of the Great Wall to uncover a 3,000-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, criticised, built and attacked it. It is time to see the Wall less as it is now - a great tourist attraction, an impressive pieces of construction 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." (From the introduction). .
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, criticised, built and attacked it. It is time to see the Wall less as it is now - a great tourist attraction, an impressive pieces of construction 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." (From the introduction). .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 179484
- Title
- The Great Wall. China Against the World. 1000 BC - 2000 AD.
- Author
- LOVELL, JULIA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330422413
- ISBN 13
- 9780330422413
- Publisher
- Groove Press.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 2006.
- Keywords
- China, East Asia, Great Wall, History, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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