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The Great Wall : A Cultural History /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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