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长城到底有多长?

I was telling people the Great Wall story, and they were asking me questions. After a while I began to think, the typical curious, thinking person, they may arrive in China and not know the difference between Mao and Ming. Anyway, I felt that most people's knowledge about the Great Wall was actually very superficial, and a lot of it was completely incorrect.

我给人们讲长城的故事，他们会问许多问题。过了不久我开始发现，典型的有好奇心、爱思考的人，他们可能来到中国还不知道“毛”和“明”的区别。总之，我觉得大部分人关于长城的知识其实非常肤浅，并且很多还是完全错误的。

So I began to think, how can I really deliver a good engaging Great Wall story to the people I talk to? I wanted them to feel the thrill I felt without getting too bogged down and confused by the difficult-to-pronounce Chinese names and the masses of dates, and the confusion of it all.

因此我开始思考，怎样才能给那些跟我交谈的人传达一个美好动人的长城故事？我想让他们在不要太沉溺于那些很难发音的中文名字还有大量数据，在不被这些东西弄得晕头转向的情况下感受到我的激动心情。

There are reports that you found portions of the Great Wall outside China.

《华尔街日报》：有报道说你在中国境外找到了长城遗址。

To explain my findings of 2011, I coined a new term: 'Great Wall outside China.' Which is a compromise. It's a recognition that the structure being seen is a great wall─it's a fortification built during the conflict between the nomadic people of the north and the sedentary crop-growing people of the south. But it's outside today's China.