The Great Wall : : A Cultural History /

The Great Wall : : A Cultural History / / Carlos Rojas.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Rojas, Carlos,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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