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Title: 长城 (Great Wall)
ISBN: 7-5347-3301-4
Publisher: DaXiang
Year of publishing: 2004
Text: Chinese
Price: 22 RMB (3.2 USD)
Pages: 128
Binding: paperback
Bought at: Wangfujing Bookstore, Beijing

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A very nice little book with superb pictures. Unfortunately it's only in Chinese but the pictures alone is well worth it and the price is astonishing. The book also feature some small maps of selected areas, telephone numbers, opening hours and ticket prices.
It seems like an obvious choice for translating into English and publishing worldwide.
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Book THE GREAT WALL of CHINA by L. Newton Hayes

I recently bought this rarity. Sometimes it is fun to read chinese names in Wade-Giles transcription ...

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The Great Wall of China
1927/1939
ASIN: B0008AU9NU

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The Great Wall of China
1927/1939

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Hi chinoook,

That is a very interesting book which I have never seen or heard of before!

I moved your post to this thread and added the picture and the ASIN. I don't know if this was the right thread. Is it more of a history book than an informational book? Let me know if it needs to be moved again. Meanwhile I will try to get a copy myself!

I found several new books during my recent trip to China and I will be adding them soon...
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ISBN: 7-5321-3092-4
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ISBN: 7-5321-3092-4
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I found that book yesterday in a Lanzhou book store. It seems like a very excellent book with a lot of nice pictures, just too bad the text is in Chinese.
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Book 长城

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长城
ISBN: 978-7-119-03913-3
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Book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China

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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China
by Joseph Needham

ISBN: 052146773X, 9780521467735
Cambridge University Press
365 pages
1995

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Do you know if this 1995 edition delves more into GW related issues than the 1978 3 volume edition? Somehow I never associated Needham's exhaustive (and defensive!) project with anything bearing on the GW.

Another note: it would be great to have a few lines of annotations about these works, just to make informed choices in digging out some of them, or ordering them from Beijing.
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Do you know if this 1995 edition delves more into GW related issues than the 1978 3 volume edition? Somehow I never associated Needham's exhaustive (and defensive!) project with anything bearing on the GW.

Another note: it would be great to have a few lines of annotations about these works, just to make informed choices in digging out some of them, or ordering them from Beijing.
I do not think the new edition contains any more material than the early one, but it does contain some information on the Great Wall. You can look at the Preview to see what's contained in the new edition.

I agree about the annotations. Others that have posted books have been better about that than I. Over time I will go back and add notes or short reviews to my book posts.
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