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The Great Wall of China: Article and Film

I would like to alert readers to a feature article in this week's edition of _the New Yorker_ magazine on a unique research project on the history of the Great Wall. The title of the article is "Walking the Wall: An Obsession with a... ...full story at Shanghai Journal

from Shanghai Journal on Tue, May 15 2007

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