Books for Parents: The Great Wall: From Beginning to End by William ... dates back 2,000 years in China’s history. Ting has played the pipa since childhood and won first prize in China’s ...

Criterion (vi): The Great Wall has an incomparable symbolic significance in the history of China. Its purpose was to protect China from outside aggression, but also to preserve its culture from the ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site.

Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over ...