Arthur Waldron

The Great Wall of China

From History to Myth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arthur Waldron reveals that the notion of an ancient and continuously existing Great Wall, is in fact a myth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521427074
• ISBN-10: 052142707X
• Artikelnr.: 21164338

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on romanization
1. Introduction: what is the Great Wall of China?
Part I. First Considerations: 2. Early Chinese walls
3. Strategic origins of Chinese walls
Part II. The Making of the Great Wall: 4. Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos
5. Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse
6. Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls
7. Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century
8. The second debate over the Ordos
9. The heyday of wall-building
Part III. The Significance of Wall-Building: 10. The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise
11. The Wall acquires new meanings
Notes
Bibliography
Chinese and Japanese materials
Western materials
Glossary
Index.