THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: FROM HISTORY TO MYTH (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions).
Rare and modern books
Waldron Arthur
Cambridge University Press 1990,
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA: FROM HISTORY TO MYTH (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions).
Rare and modern books
Waldron Arthur
Cambridge University Press 1990,
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- Author
- Waldron Arthur
- Publishers
- Cambridge University Press 1990
- Keyword
- CINA China Chine
- Cover description
- Very Good
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
Hardback in dj. 296 pages half-tones and maps.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
