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The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990Description: xiii, 296 pages 24cmISBN:
  • 9780521427074
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951 WAL
Contents:
Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China? -- Part I: First considerations -- Early Chinese walls -- Strategic origins of Chinese walls -- Part II: The making of the Great Wall -- Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos -- Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse -- Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls -- Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century -- The second debate over the Ordos -- The heyday of wall-building -- Part III: The significances of wall-building -- The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise -- The Wall acquires new meanings -- Glossary.
Summary: A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.
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Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China? --
Part I: First considerations --
Early Chinese walls --
Strategic origins of Chinese walls --
Part II: The making of the Great Wall --
Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos --
Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse --
Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls --
Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century --
The second debate over the Ordos --
The heyday of wall-building --
Part III: The significances of wall-building --
The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise --
The Wall acquires new meanings --
Glossary.

A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.

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