Jottings from the Granite Studio

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The Great Wall…highway?

September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

While David Spindler is fond of correcting the myth that the Great Wall was an elevated highway for guards and soldiers, the Modern Mechanix blog reprints a 1931 article about plans by the KMT government to build a 1500-mile long elevated roadway a top the wall running west from Beijing.  (Click here for the article: Page [...]

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