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Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions Ser.: Great Wall of China : From History to Myth by Arthur N. Waldron (1990, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-10052136518X
ISBN-139780521365185
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038452225
Product Key Features
Number of Pages310 Pages
Publication NameGreat Wall of China : from History to Myth
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAsia / General, Asia / China
Publication Year1990
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTravel, History
AuthorArthur N. Waldron
SeriesCambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-032689
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal951.1
Table Of ContentList 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.
SynopsisThis is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history. Drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, the book first demonstrates that the standard account of the Great Wall is untrue and misleading and then presents a convincing new account. It begins by tracing the various walls and systems of frontier defences that existed in early Chinese history, and shows how the greatest of these achieved a mythical symbolic stature which long survived the Wall itself. A striking concluding chapter traces how the true history of the Wall was lost in the early twentieth century as it was gradually transformed into a Chinese national symbol explained through historical myth. The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitudes, and will be of interest both to students of Chinese history and of international relations in the pre-modern world., This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language and, drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history.
LC Classification NumberDS793.G67 W25 1990
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