TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waldron,Arthur
TI  - The Great Wall of China: from history to myth 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
SN  - 9781316266106
AV  - DS793 .G743 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Great Wall of China (China)
KW  - Fortification
KW  - China
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology
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ER  -