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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations to come ix
4. List of Principal Chinese Polities xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction. The Persistence and Significance of Walls xvii
7. Part one The Building and Unbuilding of Walls
8. Chapter one “The Great Wall of China” An Author’s Reflections after Twenty Years 1
9. Chapter two Tales of Three City Walls in China’s Central Plain 37
10. Chapter Three Chinese County Walls between the Central State and Local Society Evidence from Henan Province during the Ming Dynasty 81
11. Part two Walls within Cities
12. Chapter four The Ward Walls and Gates of Tang Chang’an as Seen in “The Tale of Li Wa” 111
13. Chapter five A Maze of Jurisdictional Walls Conflict and Cooperation Among the Courts in Republican-Era Shanghai 139
14. Part three Containment and Breaches
15. Chapter six Walls as Multivalent Icons in Early People’s Republican Political Cartoons, 1946–1951 173
16. Chapter seven Pathogen Traffic Walls and Apertures 211
17. Chapter eight Realizing the Four Modernizations with a New “Long Wall” China’s Effort to Use a “Big Fire Wall” to Control the Internet 239
18. Part four China in the World
19. Chapter nine Breaking Down the Wall between East and West in the “Daoist Poetics” of Wai-lim Yip 271
20. Chapter ten Near Far The Dispersion, Relocation, and Mobility of Contemporary Chinese Artists 299
21. Chapter eleven Confronting the Walls Efforts at Reconstructing World History in China at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 329
22. Part five Walls in Cinema and Painting
23. Chapter twelve Amid Crumbling Chinese Walls The Changing Roles of Family and Women as Revealed in Wang Chao’s Anyang Orphan 367
24. Chapter thirteen Writing on the Wall Brice Marden’s Chinese Work and Modernism 397
25. Conclusion: Bricks and Tiles 435
26. Glossary 445
27. Contributors 449