Considering that it was constructed for the purpose of keeping foreigners out of China, it’s ironic that the Great Wall has become China’s number one attraction for visitors from abroad.
If you’ve only done the chairlift at Badaling, however, you can hardly count yourself as a Wall veteran. Indeed, speak to any tourist visiting Beijing, and […]
An epic field survey aided by a range of high-tech devices will be carried out along China’s 6,300-kilometer-long Great Wall, China Daily reports on Wednesday.
A group of heritage guardians will use laser range finders, global positioning system (GPS) devices and digital cameras to make detailed records, brick by brick, of the mammoth structure.
The field survey […]
The Great Wall offers a timeless charm to tourists, but scenery varies with seasons. Visit it in different time you will get a quite different scene. In spring, when trees and plants begin to turn green, the wall wonders among the lush vegetation. Every thing looks so fresh. It is a good time to avoid […]
The Ch’in emperors who originally envisioned the Great Wall snaking across the face of China believed they could unify their civilization by constructing a barrier that would at once keep invading barbarians out and restless subjects in. They spent centuries proving the plan didn’t work while simultaneously creating one of the Seven Wonders of the […]
On June 25, 1899 an interesting story about the Great Wall of China appeared in three Denver newspapers. It said that the Chinese were going to tear the Great Wall down and build a road in its place, and that to complete this project they were taking bids from American firms.
The news supposedly came from […]
Ancient Wonder, Modern Challenge
AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA ICON—WORLD MONUMENTS MAGEZINE
BY WILLIAM LINDESAY
In the early 1580s, an illustrated manuscript was delivered to the Antwerp atelier of renowned cartographer Abraham Ortelius. According to the manuscript’s purveyor, Arius Montanus, a Benedictine monk and one of the cartographer’s most trusted informants, the document had […]
A study has found the Great Wall of China has deteriorated considerably over the past 100 years, and the battlements themselves are now in need of defending.
The series of walls and battlements dates back to 550 BC and stretches from the Bohai Sea to the Gobi Desert.
A British geographer living in Beijing, William Lindesay, is […]
Listed as one of the World Heritages by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1987, the Great Wall of China, a symbolic image of China physically and mentally, is one of the best Chinese historical relics. It is considered as the backbone of the Chinese people and the soul of the Chinese […]
Chinese archaeologists have confirmed after a recent field examination that a 20-km-long section of the Great Wall in north China’s Shanxi province was built in the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
This section is located in Kelan County in northwest Shanxi and is made of stones.
Sources from local archeological departments said that about 20 km of this part […]
The modern study of the Meng Jiangnü tale begins with the birth in the 1920s of China’s folk song studies (geyaoxue) and folkloric studies (minsuxue) movements. These had their origins in the late-Qing period, but the documentation of China’s folkloric traditions was undertaken as a part of an agenda of national heritage (guogu) studies. Prominent […]