Lecture Guide: The Great Wall (Myths)
(Information from National Geographic Jan. 2003)

1. Peter Hessler

2. Series of walls

3. Gas station attendants

4. Black Volkswagon Santanas

5. Symbol for China

6. A singular term?




7. Average people, not experts

8. Autumn harvest

9. Signal towers

10. Feng shui or geomancy





11. Opera troop

12. Villages surrounded by the wall (forts of barracks)

13. Local amateur historians vs. Chinese scholars (Chen Zhen)

14. “End runs”

15. The Mings

16. Wall top paths

17. Total wall length

18. Bricks / blocks taken

Lecture Guide: The Great Wall (Myths)
(Information from National Geographic Jan. 2003)

19. Wall as a political / economic divide

20. Only in the 20th century

21. Hitchhikers in central China


22. Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD ) Walls were more philosophical than practical


23. The Mings, centuries later


24. Walls were more a message than a tactic


25. Highway 110 in Inner Mongolia

26. “Car sick”

27. High-tech intersects the ancient




28. Inner Mongolia: Mantels

29. Genghis Khan’s Mausoleum / the controversy


30. Europeans beginning in the late 1600’s begin the myths

- a single period

-all brick and stone

-can see from the moon

-length

-foreign phrase


Lecture Guide: The Great Wall (Myths)
(Information from National Geographic Jan. 2003)

31. Chinese nationalists in the 20th century realize the symbolic value




32. Deng Xiaoping’s proclamation



33. Great Wall Marathon

34. Badaling Safari Park

35. Wine tasting

36. Yang Yongfu at Jiayuguan



37. From feng shui to propaganda to cell phone coverage



38. “Its not enough to protect something, you must use it. If it is not valued, sooner or later it will be destroyed.






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