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<b>It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. </b><br><br>Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, while the Great Wall of China was an attempt to build a barrier along the most vulnerable border of the entire country. Yet the finest examples of walled communities were China's walled cities, whose defensive architecture surpassed anything along the Great Wall. This book traces the evolution of the walled

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Author

Stephen Turnbull, Steve Noon (Illustrator)

Publisher

Osprey Publishing;Bloomsbury Publishing

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782005056

Category

history

Subjects

History, Architecture, Engineering

Updated

2026-03-25