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这就是这本书自己的舞台：威廉·埃德加·盖尔站在书页上，亲口用普通话朗读他自己的书——这是他讲述的下半程：从秦始皇的陵墓，到长城最西端的最后一块砖。柔和的中国传统弦乐轻轻衬在话音之下。书角的条形码每一帧都在——随时扫码，回到这家书店。
This is the book's own stage: William Edgar Geil stands on the page and reads his own book aloud in Mandarin — the second half of his story, from the tomb of the First Emperor to the last brick at the Wall's western end. Soft traditional Chinese strings play low under the narration, and the barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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- Chapters XIV–XXVII, complete — the walk finished: 第十四章 秦始皇——中国的第一位皇帝 · 第十五章 秦始皇陵 · 第十六章 长城为何而建 · 第十七章 “九乘三”之城——凉州府 · 第十八章 永乐，他“移动了帝国的鼎” · 第十九章 长城的南部环线 · 第二十章 长城前的中国 · 第二十一章 三个秦 · 第二十二章 中世纪的中国：从秦的长城到当今王朝 · 第二十三章 长城的西藏环线 · 第二十四章 秦碑——“古代最非凡的遗物之一” · 第二十五章 中国的狭长走廊：甘州 · 第二十六章 中国的狭长走廊：肃州城 · 第二十七章 长城的尽头 (Volume One carries Chapters I–XIII.)
- 4 hours 57 minutes of narration — Geil himself stands on the stage and reads his own book aloud in Mandarin, chapter by chapter, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
- 33 photographs from the 1909 book — Geil's own plates, including the one at the Wall's end, where he laid down the last brick.
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This is the public-domain text of William Edgar Geil's The Great Wall of China (1909), presented as a talking hologram book in a fresh Mandarin translation made for this edition from the public-domain English original — no modern translation was used. Geil died on April 11, 1925, more than a hundred years ago. The narration is a synthesized Mandarin reading (Piper — Huayan) of that text, made for this edition; the narrator on the stage is Geil himself, from his own photographs in the 1909 book, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Music: “Chill China Love” by Frank Nora (FreePD, CC0). Editor: Franklin Langston.
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