Great Wall of China; China Against the World
$16.15 CAD • Used
A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 6.3 X 1.38 X 9.25 inches; 412 pages; "Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividi...
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A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 6.3 X 1.38 X 9.25 inches; 412 pages; "Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese and the barbarians at their borders. Historian Julia Lovell looks behind the intimidating fortification and its mythology to uncover a complex history far more fragmented and less illustrious that its crowds of visitors imagine today. Lovells story winds through the lives of the millions of individuals who built and attacked it, and recounts how succeeding dynasties built sections of the wall as defenses against the invading Huns, Mongols, and Turks, and how the Ming dynasty, in its quest to create an empire, joined the regional ramparts to make what the Chinese call the 10,000 Li or the long wall."
Product Info
ISBN: 0670063762
ISBN-13: 9780670063765
Publisher: Viking
Year: 2006
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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