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THE GREAT WALLS OF CHINAThe preservation of the various Great Wall systems was highlighted during the events surrounding China's first Cultural Heritage Day, celebrated on 10 June 2006. In this issue we examine new, and old, chapters and byways in the long history of China's much vaunted and equally abused Great Walls. This issue is produced in anticipation of The Great Wall of China, a major exhibition initiated by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. A joint project with the National Museum of China, Beijing, and a number of other major Chinese museums, the exhibition opens in Sydney on 27 September 2006. This event will be marked by the publication a large book of essays by pre-eminent scholars in China, Australia and North America and images of the objects borrowed from the participating Chinese organizations. That volume, also called The Great Wall of China, features a series of specially commissioned oral history interviews by Sang Ye with people along the Wall, from Jade Pass (Yumenguan) in present-day Gansu to Shanhaiguan in Hebei province. The book is produced by Powerhouse Publishing and the China Heritage Project of the ANU's College of Asia and the Pacific. To coincide with the exhibition, the Powerhouse Museum is also hosting a weblog (blog) written by Brendan Fletcher and Emma Nicholas who are walking along the Great Walls and recording their trek in both text and image. See: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/walkingthewall/ China Heritage Newsletter has been appearing for over a year. Considering the style and substance of our publication, from this issue we are renaming the journal China Heritage Quarterly [www.chinaheritagequarterly.org] Apart from our regular items, we are introducing a Bibliography section under New Scholarship. We believe that this will enrich the focus of the issue in which it appears. |
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