: from history to myth Waldron, Arthur creator Waldron, Arthur text New York : Cambridge University Press 1990 monographic eng

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xiii, 296 pages 24cm. A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology. 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. / Arthur Waldron History History of Asia China & adjacent areas Northern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period Chinese muur 951 WAL 9780521427074 190517 20190517144452.0