Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC  AD 1644
epub | 20.43 MB | English |  Stephen Turnbull |   Osprey Publishing

About Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC  AD 1644 :

It has been said in China that a city without a  wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. 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 city from the 3,000 year old remains of the  beaten earth walls of the Shang dynasty to the huge stone fortifications  of the Ming dynasty. Stephen Turnbull, expert military historian,  reveals the defensive structures from all the major ancient Chinese  cities, and discusses how they protected entire communities, and not  just castle dwellers, with colour artwork reconstructions, maps and  archive photographs.

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