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The rise and fall of China's Great Wall: the race to save a world treasure - Special Report
MADE OF BRICK, STONE, and dirt, the Great Wall twists and turns across China's landscape like a giant dragon. It seems to rise out of the sea at Bo Hal gulf, a place known to local people as Laolon...(Continue Reading) A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History. - Review - book review
By Patrick Tyler. New York: Public Affairs, 1999. 276 pp. $27.50. Several years ago when a US Department of Defense consultant briefed a Pentagon audience about the current state of US ties with...(Continue Reading)The History of Nations Series China & England & Germany - History & Geography - Book Review
THE HISTORY OF NATIONS SERIES. China. C.J. Shane, ed. 238p. 0-7377-1193-0. England. Clarice Swisher, ed. 240p. 0-7377-1129-9. Germany. Annette Dufner, ......(Continue Reading)Building the next Great Wall of China
A pile of red bricks is all that remains of the Du family's house. Struggling to keep her balance, Du Kaiyin navigates a wooden vat of water through the ......(Continue Reading)Why the dragon will outrun the bear: ever since he travelled to the Soviet Union and China as a young man nearly 20 years ago, Nicholas Watt has asked
In 1986, as a brash 18-year-old, I wrote to Mikhail Gorbachev. I asked the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party to discuss world affairs with me during a brief stopover in Moscow as I ma...(Continue Reading)
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