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Waldron, Arthur

The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990 - xiii, 296 pages 24cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780521427074

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History
History of Asia
China & adjacent areas
Northern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period
Chinese muur.

Dewey Class. No.: 951 WAL