From the Great Wall to the Great Collider is among the titles included under this week’s “Books and Arts/Books in brief” column published in Nature: 528, 191 (December 10, 2015) under: “Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.“

The full review: From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe

Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau International Press of Boston (2015)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Europe’s particle-physics lab, CERN, has witnessed game-changing discoveries, not least the Higgs boson in 2012. Now, rival ideas for successors are evolving (see Nature 511, 394–395; 2014). In this forcefully argued history-cum-manifesto, physicist Shing-Tung Yau and writer Steve Nadis make the case for a “Great Collider” 100　kilometres in circumference to be built in China — an engineering marvel on a par with the Great Wall, but designed to lure hordes in for “rousing research collaboration.”