Rocks integrated into the structure of the Great Wall of China at Badaling

Rocks integrated into the structure of the Great Wall of China at Badaling

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: WC01-256. "Nowhere is the expertise of Ming wall builders more evident than in this section of wall at Badaling. Large stone formations become reinforcements as the builders organically integrated the structure with its surroundings." Source: 'The Great Wall from Beginning to End' by Michael Yamashita and William Lindesay (Sterling, 2007), page 43.

Location

Badaling

Estimated Date

1912-1919

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections

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