Contents: Forewords; Map; Timeline 1; Timeline 2; Chinese Dynasties; Great Walls of China; Introduction; China's Most Famous Ruin; The Great Tourist Icon; www.greatwall.com.cn; The Great Walls of China; Walls as Heritage; Living with the Past; Workings of the Wall; Manning the Wall: Qi Jiguang; The Emperor's Call North; The Material Cultures of the Walls; Delimited Boundaries: An Overview of Great Wall Studies in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries; Barbarian Walls; Mother Earth; The Great Wall Embodied; Mapping for the Kingdom; Inside Out; The Porous Wall; Prince Gong's Folly; Steaming through the Wall; Getting to the Great Wall; Bibliography; Glossary; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; About the Museums; Picture credits.
