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Great Wall of China

Posted by Brian under Cactus Languages Abroad

Just seen these amazing photos of the Great Wall of China on the Gadling website: http://www.gadling.com/photos/the-real-and-forbidden-great-wall/619825/ and recommend you take a look.

Just 2 minutes browsing the photos is a powerful visual comment on the Republic of China, and what it stands for past and present.

The link above is to one particular photo that I enjoyed. The whole impossibility of putting a wall where this particular bit of wall was built is astounding. You can’t help but hear the voices behind orders bring barked out in Chinese, through the mist…”yes, that’s right, stick it on that rock there - I don’t care how hard or impossible it looks, just do it”. Just the scale of the whole things speaks of China’s power, absence of choice, obligation, control, discipline, conviction.

Brian

Tags:china, chinese

Reader's Comments

Cactus | March 6th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Brian

Thanks for that. They are definitely amazing photos . Have you ever been to China?
Mr.KK | March 26th, 2008 at 4:32 am
Yes, just like another World’s Wonder Taj Mal in Jaipur, India, as I visited, the emperor chopped off the right hands of the builders after he realized the Black Mal couldnt be achieved as his son took the power. But in China, the most powerful and cruel emperor QIN even killed all the workers after it was finished.