The Great Wall : China against the world, 1000 BC-AD 2000 / Julia Lovell.
Record details
- ISBN: 0802118143
- ISBN: 9780802118141
- Physical Description: xvii, 412 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2006]
- Distributor: [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West.
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: Great Britain : Atlantic Books, 2006.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-406) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction: Who Made the Great Wall of China? 1 -- 1 Why Walls? 25 -- 2 Long Wall 47 -- 3 Han Walls: Plus ca change 66 -- 4 Shifting Frontiers and Decadent Barbarians 93 -- 5 China Reunited 117 -- 6 Without Walls: The Chinese Frontiers Expand 137 -- 7 Return of the Barbarians 159 -- 8 A Case of Open and Shut: The Early Ming Frontier 181 -- 9 Wall Goes Up 210 -- 10 Great Fall of China 232 -- 11 How Barbarians Made the Great Wall 262 -- 12 Translating the Great Wall into Chinese 296 -- Conclusion: The Great Wall, the Great Mall and the Great Firewall 323 -- Appendix 1 Principal Characters 351 -- Appendix 2 Chronology of Dynasties 359 -- Appendix 3 Significant Dates in Chinese History and Wall-building 361.
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- Great Wall of China (China) > History.
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