Chinese Walls In Time And Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Synopsis

The Persistence And Significance Of Walls -- The Building And Unbuilding Of Walls -- The Great Wall Of China: An Author's Reflections After Twenty Years / Arthur Waldron -- Tales Of Three City Walls In China's Central Plain / Roger Des Forges -- Chinese County Walls Between The Central State And Local Society: Evidence From Henan Province During The Ming Dynasty / Desmond Cheung -- The Ward Walls And Tages Of Tang Chang'an As Seen In The Tale Of Li Wa / Keyang Tang -- A Maze Of Jurisdictional Walls: Conflict And Cooperation Among The Courts In Republican-era Shanghai / Tahirih V. Lee -- Walls As Multivalent Icons In The Early People's Republican Political Cartoons, 1946-1951 / Adam Cathcart -- Pathogen Traffic: Walls And Apertures / Richard V. Lee And Roger Des Forges -- Realizing The Four Modernizations With A New Long Wall: China's Effort To Use A Big Fire Wall To Control The Internet / Junhao Hong -- Breaking Down The Wall Between East And West In The Daoist Poetics Of Wai-lim Yip / Jonathan Stalling -- Near Far: The Dispersion, Relocation, And Mobility Of Contemporary Chinese Artists / Millie Chen -- Confronting The Walls: Efforts At Reconstructing World History In China At The Turn Of The Twenty-first Century / Luo Xu -- Amid Crumbling Chinese Walls: The Changing Roles Of Family And Women As Revealed In Wang Chao's Anyang Orphan / Xiaoping Lin -- Writing On The Wall: Brice Marden's Chinese Work And Modernism / Liu Chiao-mei. Editors, Roger Des Forges ... [et Al.] Includes Bibliographical References And Index.