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THE GREAT WALL THE GREAT WALL A Cultural History CARLOS ROJAS HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts London,England 2010 Copyright©2010bythePresidentand FellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Rojas,Carlos,1970– TheGreatWall:aculturalhistory/CarlosRojas. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-674-04787-7(alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-674-04787-7(alk.paper) 1.GreatWallofChina(China)—History. 2.China—Civilization. I.Title. DS793.G67R652010 951—dc22 2010024946 ForEileen Contents Illustrations ix SelectedChronology xi OnNames xiii Prologue:OnOrigins 1 1 AUnityofGaps 13 2 AspirationsofImmortality 43 3 BetweenHistoryandLegend 67 4 AGardenofForkingPaths 92 5 AnotherBrickintheWall 126 6 AVeryQueerThing 148 Epilogue:ReturntoOrigins 172 Appendix:GettingThere 181 FurtherReading 187 Notes 193 Acknowledgments 201 Index 203 Illustrations ObamaatBadaling ObamaatBadaling,with“OneWorldOneDream”signinback- ground TimesSquarebillboardshowingObamaatBadaling ProjecttoExtendtheGreatWallofChinaby10,000Meters:Proj- ectforExtraterrestrialsNo.10,CaiGuo-Qiang(1993) “TheGreatWallofChina,”RobertRipley,BelieveItorNot! (1932) Chinae,olimsinarumregionis,novadescriptio:AuctoreLudouico Georgio,AbrahamOrteliusandLuisJorgedeBarbuda(1584) AGeographicMap,SouthernSongmapofnorthwesternChina (1155) QindynastyWall ImageoftheWallformedoutofoversizeprintingblocks,Beijing OlympicGamesOpeningCeremony,directedbyZhangYimou (2008) WarringStates–periodwalls Handynastywalls WallcircleinDragonGateInn,directedbyKingHu(1967) NorthernWei,NorthernQi,Sui,Liao,andJindynastywalls MapofChineseandBarbarianNations,Songdynastymapof China(1040/1137) MingandQingWall ix

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Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world’s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the ten

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THE GREAT WALL THE GREAT WALL A Cultural History CARLOS ROJAS HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts London,England 2010 Copyright©2010bythePresidentand FellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Rojas,Carlos,1970– TheGreatWall:aculturalhistory/CarlosRojas. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-674-04787-7(alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-674-04787-7(alk.paper) 1.GreatWallofChina(China)—History. 2.China—Civilization. I.Title. DS793.G67R652010 951—dc22 2010024946 ForEileen Contents Illustrations ix SelectedChronology xi OnNames xiii Prologue:OnOrigins 1 1 AUnityofGaps 13 2 AspirationsofImmortality 43 3 BetweenHistoryandLegend 67 4 AGardenofForkingPaths 92 5 AnotherBrickintheWall 126 6 AVeryQueerThing 148 Epilogue:ReturntoOrigins 172 Appendix:GettingThere 181 FurtherReading 187 Notes 193 Acknowledgments 201 Index 203 Illustrations ObamaatBadaling ObamaatBadaling,with“OneWorldOneDream”signinback- ground TimesSquarebillboardshowingObamaatBadaling ProjecttoExtendtheGreatWallofChinaby10,000Meters:Proj- ectforExtraterrestrialsNo.10,CaiGuo-Qiang(1993) “TheGreatWallofChina,”RobertRipley,BelieveItorNot! (1932) Chinae,olimsinarumregionis,novadescriptio:AuctoreLudouico Georgio,AbrahamOrteliusandLuisJorgedeBarbuda(1584) AGeographicMap,SouthernSongmapofnorthwesternChina (1155) QindynastyWall ImageoftheWallformedoutofoversizeprintingblocks,Beijing OlympicGamesOpeningCeremony,directedbyZhangYimou (2008) WarringStates–periodwalls Handynastywalls WallcircleinDragonGateInn,directedbyKingHu(1967) NorthernWei,NorthernQi,Sui,Liao,andJindynastywalls MapofChineseandBarbarianNations,Songdynastymapof China(1040/1137) MingandQingWall ix

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