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Julia Lovell

The Great Wall

China Against the World, 1000 BC-AD 2000

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Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the barbarians” at its borders. But behind the wall's intimidating exterior-and the myths that have built up around it-is a complex history that has both defined and undermined China. Author Julia Lovell has written a new and important history of the Great Wall that guides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millenniu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-55584-832-3
  • EAN: 9781555848323
  • Produktnummer: 31909323
  • Verlag: Grove Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


JULIA LOVELL was born in 1975 and lectures in Chinese history and literature at Cambridge University, where she is one of the university's young teachers. She has spent extended periods in China and has recently translated the prize-winning Chinese novel, A Dictionary of Maqiao. She writes on China for The Times, The Observer, The Economist and The Times Literary Supplement. She lives in Cambridge and is married to the writer Robert MacFarlane.

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