The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall write by Jillian Lin. This book was released on 2016-11-28. The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA...a 13-year-old boy became its first emperor and built the longest wall in the world. In this book, discover why he started building The Great Wall, how he made China the biggest country on earth and what treasures he hid in his secret tomb. Find out how he became one of the most important people in Chinese history ? and how China was named after him.
Where Is the Great Wall?
Where Is the Great Wall? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where Is the Great Wall? write by Patricia Brennan Demuth. This book was released on 2015-02-05. Where Is the Great Wall? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname--the longest cemetery on earth. Through the story of the wall, Patricia Brennan Demuth is able to tell the story of China itself, the rise and fall of dynasties, the greatness of its culture, and its present-day status as a Communist world power.
The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Wall of China write by Arthur Waldron. This book was released on 1990-07-27. The Great Wall of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history. Drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, the book first demonstrates that the standard account of the Great Wall is untrue and misleading and then presents a convincing new account. It begins by tracing the various walls and systems of frontier defences that existed in early Chinese history, and shows how the greatest of these achieved a mythical symbolic stature which long survived the Wall itself. A striking concluding chapter traces how the true history of the Wall was lost in the early twentieth century as it was gradually transformed into a Chinese national symbol explained through historical myth. The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitudes, and will be of interest both to students of Chinese history and of international relations in the pre-modern world.
The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall
The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall write by Jillian Lin. This book was released on 2015-02-16. The Emperor Who Built the Great Wall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meet the brilliant, all-powerful First Emperor of China. Read about his life and how he became one of the most important men in Chinese history. In this book, discover for yourself why the First Emperor built the Wall, how he made China the biggest country on earth, and what he hid in his secret tomb. The simple language and beautiful illustrations make The Emperor Who Built The Great Wall a wonderful reader or bedtime story. It is suitable for all ages, but children aged 5 to 12 years will especially enjoy reading this book.
Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall
Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall write by . This book was released on 2012-03-15. Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the early centuries B.C.E. and are an intrinsic part of Chinese literary history. Major themes and subtle nuances of the legend are illuminated here by Wilt L. Idema's new translations and pairings. In this classic story, a young woman named Meng Jiang makes a long, solitary journey to deliver winter clothes to her husband, a drafted laborer on the grandiose Great Wall construction project of the notorious First Emperor of the Qin dynasty (BCE 221-208). But her travels end in tragedy when, upon arrival, she learns that her husband has died under the harsh working conditions and been entombed in the wall. Her tears of grief cause the wall to collapse and expose his bones, which she collects for proper burial. In some versions, she tricks the lecherous emperor, who wants to marry her, into providing a stately funeral for her husband and then takes her own life. The versions presented here are ballads and chantefables (alternating chanted verse and recited prose), five from urban printed texts from the late Imperial and early Republican periods, and five from oral performances and partially reconstructed texts collected in rural areas in recent decades. They represent a wide range of genres, regional styles, dates, and content. From one version to another, different elements of the story--the circumstances of Meng Jiangnu's marriage, her relationship with her parents-in-law, the journey to the wall, her grief, her defiance of the emperor--are elaborated upon, downplayed, or left out altogether depending on the particular moral lessons that tale authors wished to impart. Idema brings together his considerable translation skills and broad knowledge of Chinese literature to present an assortment of tales and insightful commentary that will be a gold mine of information for scholars in a number of disciplines. Haiyan Lee's essay discusses the appeal of the Meng Jiangnü story to twentieth-century literary reformers, and the interpretations they imposed on the material they collected.
