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The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron.

By: Series: Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutionsPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.Description: xiii, 296 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 052136518X
  • 9780521365185
  • 052142707X (pbk.)
  • 9780521427074 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951 19
LOC classification:
  • DS793.G67 W25 1990
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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks Non-fiction DS793.G67 W25 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available TBC00002675
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks Non-fiction DS793.G67 W25 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Not For Loan c.2 Library copy is autographed by author. TBC00007188
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks Non-fiction DS793.G67 W25 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.3 Available TBC00013963

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-278) 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.

c.2 Library copy is autographed by author.

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