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

Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about Chinas age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the barbarians at its borders. But behind the walls intimidating exterior - and the myths that have built up around it - is a complex history that has both defined and undermined China. Author Julia Lovell has written a new and important history of the Great Wall that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millennium BC to the present day.

Softcover. English. Atlantic Books. 2007. ISBN: 9781843542155. 412 pp. Good. Book No: 62464