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CHINA JUSTIN MAROZZI DECONSTRUCTS SOME MYTHS ABOUT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
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The Great Wall:
The Extraordinary History of
China's Wonder of the World
BY JOHN MAN
BANTAM PRESS, pounds 20, 315 pp
T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Later this year, while performance-enhanced athletes are doing
their thing at the Beijing Olympics, we are bound to be bombarded
with striking images of the Great Wall, national symbol bar none of
China. When we are, commentators will almost certainly trot out a
number of Great Wall clic...
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