Research Catalog

Title

The Great Wall revisited : from the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head / William Lindesay.

Author

Lindesay, William.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Description

291 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 22 x 30 cm

Summary

"William Lindsey has spent three years travelling 35,000 km across North China, reconstructing vintage photographs - the earliest dating from 1871 - by retaking new images from the same viewpoints."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Walls > Conservation and restoration > China
• Walls > Conservation and restoration > China > Pictorial works
• Great Wall of China (China)
• Great Wall of China (China) > Pictorial works

Note

• "First published in 2007 by China Intercontinental Press in China only"--T.p. verso.
• "Published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by Frances Lincoln Limited"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-285) and index.

Contents

Prologue: The Wall of Two Williams -- Foreword / Luo Zhewen -- Ch. 1. The Great Wall: A Perspective -- Ch. 2. A Great Wall Image History: Maps, Drawings and Photographs -- Ch. 3. Rephotography and the Great Wall -- Ch. 4. Revisited Sites -- Map of Rephotographed Sires -- Yumenguan (The Jade Gate Pass) -- Milestone: Aurel Stein in 1907 Jiayuguan -- Milestone: William Geil in 1908 Norrhern Shaanxi Province -- Milestones: Clark and Sowerby in 1908; Frederick Clapp in 1914 -- Laiyuan County, Hebei -- Milestone: Sha Fei in 1937 -- Beijing -- Milestones: John Thomson in 1871; Juliet Bredon in 1919 -- Gubeikou -- Milestone: William Parish in 1793 -- Shanhaiguan -- Milestone: Mr. Smythe in 1850 -- Epilogue: Continuing to Revisit the Great Wall.

ISBN

• 9780674031494 (alk. paper)
• 0674031490 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008007122
• 99932876216

OCLC

• ocn192109835
• 192109835
• SCSB-5458844

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries