Chinese Walls in Time and Space : : A Multidisciplinary Perspective / / ed. by Roger Des Forges, Minglu Gao, Haun Saussy, Chiao-mei Liu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Burkman, Thomas,; Cathcart, Adam,; Chen, Millie,; Cheung, Desmond,; Chiao-mei, Liu,; Des Forges, Roger V.,; Des Forges, Roger,; Hong, Junhao,; Lee, Richard V.,; Lee, Tahirih V.,; Lin, Xiaoping,; Stalling, Jonathan,; Tang, Keyang,; Waldron, Arthur,; Xu, Luo,
• HerausgeberIn: Des Forges, Roger,; Gao, Minglu,; Liu, Chiao-mei,; Saussy, Haun,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.)

Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shaping as well as adjusting to new conditions? Do walls necessarily constrain and even isolate those who live within them, or can they act as a medium of support and communication for people on both sides? This volume addresses these questions. Authors from six disciplines-history, art, law, medicine, communication, and film-provide multiple perspectives on various kinds of walls: material ones around and within states, cities, and towns, as well as virtual ones regulating the administration of justice, the flow of pathogens, and the transmission of information.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations to come -- List of Principal Chinese Polities -- Preface -- Introduction. The Persistence and Significance of Walls -- Part one The Building and Unbuilding of Walls -- Chapter one “The Great Wall of China” An Author’s Reflections after Twenty Years -- Chapter two Tales of Three City Walls in China’s Central Plain -- Chapter Three Chinese County Walls between the Central State and Local Society Evidence from Henan Province during the Ming Dynasty -- Part two Walls within Cities -- Chapter four The Ward Walls and Gates of Tang Chang’an as Seen in “The Tale of Li Wa” -- Chapter five A Maze of Jurisdictional Walls Conflict and Cooperation Among the Courts in Republican-Era Shanghai -- Part three Containment and Breaches -- Chapter six Walls as Multivalent Icons in Early People’s Republican Political Cartoons, 1946–1951 -- Chapter seven Pathogen Traffic Walls and Apertures -- Chapter eight Realizing the Four Modernizations with a New “Long Wall” China’s Effort to Use a “Big Fire Wall” to Control the Internet -- Part four China in the World -- Chapter nine Breaking Down the Wall between East and West in the “Daoist Poetics” of Wai-lim Yip -- Chapter ten Near Far The Dispersion, Relocation, and Mobility of Contemporary Chinese Artists -- Chapter eleven Confronting the Walls Efforts at Reconstructing World History in China at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Part five Walls in Cinema and Painting -- Chapter twelve Amid Crumbling Chinese Walls The Changing Roles of Family and Women as Revealed in Wang Chao’s Anyang Orphan -- Chapter thirteen Writing on the Wall Brice Marden’s Chinese Work and Modernism -- Conclusion: Bricks and Tiles -- Glossary -- Contributors