Above the City Walls

(Book Two of the "World Heritage Trilogy")

[Nanjing City Walls x Intangible Cultural Heritage Rubbing x Technological Preservation x Cultural Heritage x Light Mystery]

In 1393, the Nanjing Ming City Wall was officially completed. This monumental city wall was once the culmination of ancient military fortification, embodying six thousand years of Chinese wall-building civilization.

In 1937, the Battle of Nanjing began. The land was plunged into darkness, and cries of grief filled the air. Several bricks from the Nanjing City Wall were removed by the invaders and built into the Yasukuni Shrine...

In recent years, after tireless efforts, the "Ming and Qing City Walls of China," led by the Nanjing City Wall, were successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List.

In 2048, several bricks from the city wall are deliberately damaged. Xia Jinyu, a digital technology expert in wall preservation at the Nanjing City Wall Protection Center, is assigned to investigate.

Meanwhile, Jiang Ning, heir to the Jiang family's rubbing tradition, is devoted to finding traces of his ancestor, Jiang Shaoen.

When the pulse of technology resonates with a six-hundred-year-old wall, and modern people come to see the lives of ancient artisans, the vow to protect transcends time and space.

The strongest walls are the ceaseless river of history, and history itself, alive.

[Volume One: The Mystery of the Stolen Rubbings / Volume Two: City of World Heritage / Volume Three: In Search of Jiang's Rubbings / Volume Four: Writing History]