The Great Wall : a cultural history
Through an examination of allusions to the Wall in an eclectic array of texts--ranging from official dynastic histories, elite poetry, and popular folktales to contemporary tourist testimonials, children's songs, and avant-garde performance art--this study maps out a provocative new framework for understanding the structure's function and significance
Print Book, English, ©2010
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2010
History
xv, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
9780674047877, 0674047877
555658468
Selected chronology
On names
Prologue : On origins
A unity of gaps
Aspirations of immortality
Between history and legend
A garden of forking paths
Another brick in the wall
A very queer thing
Epilogue : Return to origins
Appendix: Getting there