The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron.
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.)
- Great Wall of China (China)
- Grande Muraille (Chine)
- Fortifications -- Chine
- Gran Muralla China (China)
- Fortificaciones -- China -- Historia
- Verdedigingswerken
- Chinese muur
- Geschichte
- Chinesische Mauer
- Grande muraille de Chine
- Grande Muraille (Chine)
- Northern China Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period
- Antiquities
- China
- 951 19
- DS793.G67 W25 1990
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The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks | Non-fiction | DS793.G67 W25 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | TBC00002675 | ||
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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 | |
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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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