GREAT WALL: CHINA AGAINST THE WORLD 1000 BC - AD 2000
by LOWELL, JULIA;
List Price: HK$ 300.00
”@ISBN
9781843542124
”@Subject
CHINA
”@Publisher
ATLANTIC BOOKS UK
”@Publication
2006
”@Edition
Hardcover
”@Version
Original
”@Description
Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement: about China”¦s age-old sense of itself as an advanced civilization anxious to draw a line between itself and the ”„barbarians”¦ at its borders. But behind the Wall”¦s intimidating exterior ”V and the myths that have built up around it ”V lies a complex history of China”¦s view of the outside world, and itself.
The Great Wall is an epic history which explores the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire over the past 3,000 years. It is essential reading for everyone who wants to understand China”¦s past, present and future.
