The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000 — Boundaries as Control Systems
What if the Great Wall reveals less about permanent separation than about the recurring problem of controlling a boundary?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000 by Julia Lovell as our lens, this investigation follows three millennia of Chinese wall-building to examine the relationship between security, trade, territorial expansion, institutional power and foreign influence.
Lovell dismantles the familiar image of one ancient, continuous Great Wall. Different dynasties built different…
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