TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waldron, Arthur
AU  - Waldron, Arthur
TI  - The Great Wall of China:  : from history to myth
SN  - 9780521427074
U1  - 951 WAL 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - History
KW  - History of Asia
KW  - China & adjacent areas
KW  - Northern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period
KW  - Chinese muur
N1  - 	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
N2  - A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology
ER  -