Mei Zhang (Founder of WildChina), William Lindesay OBE (Author of The Great Wall in 50 Objects)

February 18th, 17:00 Pacific Time / 20:00 Eastern Time
February 19th, 9:00am China Standard Time
For our February book club, we'll be reading The Great Wall in 50 Objects in preparation for our chat with the author, William Lindesay OBE.
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The culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects 50 artefacts to tell the story of the Great Wall from the 2nd century B.C. to the late-twentieth century.
Much like an excavation, from the survey beforehand to the foundations, the core, and eventually the ruins, Lindesay explores the majesty of the Wall through the objects it has inspired such as the appearance of the Wall in Ortelius' atlas of the world to the unexpected origins of 'wolf smoke', proliferation of the blunderbuss in the 15th century Great Wall theatre of war, and Kafka's classic short story At the Building of the Great Wall.