The Great Wall
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The Great Wall

China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000

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eBook - ePub

The Great Wall

China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000

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A "gripping, colorful" history of China's Great Wall that explores the conquests and cataclysms of the empire from 1000 BC to the present day ( Publishers Weekly ). 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. Lovell's 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." An epic that reveals the true history of a nation, The Great Wall is "a supremely inviting entrée to the country" and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China's past, present, and future ( Booklist ).

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Publisher
Grove Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9781555848323
Topic
History
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Maps and Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Note On Romanization and Pronunciation
  9. Note On Names
  10. Introduction: Who Made the Great Wall of China?
  11. 1 Why Walls?
  12. 2 The Long Wall
  13. 3 Han Walls: Plus ça change
  14. 4 Shifting Frontiers and Decadent Barbarians
  15. 5 China Reunited
  16. 6 Without Walls: The Chinese Frontiers Expand
  17. 7 The Return of the Barbarians
  18. 8 A Case of Open and Shut: The Early Ming Frontier
  19. 9 The Wall Goes Up
  20. 10 The Great Fall of China
  21. 11 How Barbarians Made the Great Wall
  22. 12 Translating the Great Wall into Chinese
  23. Conclusion: The Great Wall, the Great Mall and the Great Firewall
  24. Appendix 1: Principal Characters
  25. Appendix 2: Chronology of Dynasties
  26. Appendix 3: Significant Dates in Chinese History and Wall-building
  27. Notes
  28. Selected Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. Footnotes