Directed by Chinese renowned filmmaker Zhang Yimou, “The Great Wall” is her first film in English. Apart from Damon, the ...

‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised ...

Starring global superstar Matt Damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), The Great Wall tells the story of an ...

burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...