The Great Wall : : A Cultural History / / Carlos Rojas.
In this book, Carlos Rojas challenges two of the dominant contemporary visions of the Great Wall of China. In one view the Wall is popularly imagined as a two thousand year old national icon. However another recent theory posits that the Wall was not built until around the seventeenth century, and t...
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Rojas, Carlos, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Great Wall : A Cultural History / Carlos Rojas. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2010 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Selected Chronology -- On Names -- PROLOGUE On Origins -- CHAPTER 1 A Unity of Gaps -- CHAPTER 2 Aspirations of Immortality -- CHAPTER 3 Between History and Legend -- CHAPTER 4 A Garden of Forking Paths -- CHAPTER 5 Another Brick in the Wall -- CHAPTER 6 A Very Queer Thing -- EPILOGUE Return to Origins -- APPENDIX Getting There -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this book, Carlos Rojas challenges two of the dominant contemporary visions of the Great Wall of China. In one view the Wall is popularly imagined as a two thousand year old national icon. However another recent theory posits that the Wall was not built until around the seventeenth century, and that the current fascination with the Wall is of even more recent provenance. Rojas rejects both of these theories as inaccurate. Instead, he argues that the Wall’s identity lies precisely in the productive tension between its underlying historical continuity and its continual process of transformation and reinvention. In addition, he posits that in order to appreciate the Wall’s historical significance it is necessary to move beyond a focus on the monument’s strictly material status and instead attend to the ways in which it has been discussed and represented, in other words, to see it as a cultural object. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674058804?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674058804 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674058804/original |
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