Great Wall of China From History to Myth

Name: Great Wall of China From History to Myth
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ISBN: 9780521427074

ISBN-10: 052142707X

ISBN-13: 9780521427074

Edition: 1990

Authors: Arthur N. Waldron

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The Great Wall of China is renowned as one of the most impressive and intriguing man-made structures on earth. It is also the subject of an awesome mythology, embedded in both learned and popular imaginations, which has grown up and now obscured the historical record. Even the maps which chart the Wall's position offer erroneous accounts of a phenomenon which has never been accurately surveyed. Arthur Waldron reveals that the notion of an ancient and continuously existing Great Wall, one of modern China's national symbols and a legend in the eyes of the West, is in fact a myth. His fascinating account reveals the strategic and political context for the decision to build walls as fortified…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/31/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.62" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on romanization



Introduction: what is the Great Wall of China?



First Considerations



Early Chinese walls



Strategic origins of Chinese walls



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



The Significance of Wall-Building



The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise



The Wall acquires new meanings


Notes


Bibliography


Chinese and Japanese materials


Western materials


Glossary


Index