The Great Wall. China Against The World 1000BC - 2000AD

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: Reprint

Description: 412 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: FROM THE INTRODUCTION:This book looks behind the modern mythology of the Great Wall to uncover a 3000-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 piece of 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.

ISBN: 9780330423441