Rojas Carlos. The Great Wall: A Cultural History
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THE GREAT WALL
THE GREAT WALL
A Cultural History
CARLOS ROJAS
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
2010
Copyright © 2010 by the President and
Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rojas, Carlos, 1970–
The Great Wall : a cultural history / Carlos Rojas.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04787-7 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-674-04787-7 (alk. paper)
1. Great Wall of China (China)—History.
2. China—Civilization.
I. Title.
DS793.G67R65 2010
951—dc22 2010024946
For Eileen
Contents
Illustrations ix
Selected Chronology xi
On Names xiii
Prologue: On Origins 1
1 A Unity of Gaps 13
2 Aspirations of Immortality 43
3 Between History and Legend 67
4 A Garden of Forking Paths 92
5 Another Brick in the Wall 126
6 A Very Queer Thing 148
Epilogue: Return to Origins 172
Appendix: Getting There 181
Further Reading 187
Notes 193
Acknowledgments 201
Index 203
Illustrations
Obama at Badaling
Obama at Badaling, with “One World One Dream” sign in back-
ground
Times Square billboard showing Obama at Badaling
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters: Proj-
ect for Extraterrestrials No. 10, Cai Guo-Qiang (1993)
“The Great Wall of China,” Robert Ripley, Believe It or Not!
(1932)
Chinae, olim sinarum regionis, nova descriptio: Auctore Ludouico
Georgio, Abraham Ortelius and Luis Jorge de Barbuda (1584)
A Geographic Map, Southern Song map of northwestern China
(1155)
Qin dynasty Wall
Image of the Wall formed out of oversize printing blocks, Beijing
Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, directed by Zhang Yimou
(2008)
Warring States–period walls
Han dynasty walls
Wall circle in Dragon Gate Inn, directed by King Hu (1967)
Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Liao, and Jin dynasty walls
Map of Chinese and Barbarian Nations, Song dynasty map of
China (1040/1137)
Ming and Qing Wall
ix