The Great Wall of China : from history to myth /
A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.