The Great Wall of China : from history to myth /
Waldron, Arthur.
The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1990. - 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations - Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781316266106
Great Wall of China (China)
Fortification--China.
Electronic Books.
DS793 / .G743 1990
The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1990. - 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations - Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781316266106
Great Wall of China (China)
Fortification--China.
Electronic Books.
DS793 / .G743 1990