Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90) and index.
Contents:
On uniqueness, definitions, and greatness -- Wall building: Component of border defence policy -- Great walls: Pre-twelfth-century structures -- Mongols and the Ming Dynasty Great Wall -- Wall construction -- Wall in operation -- Conservation: Mao Zedong and modern attack.
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