TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waldron,Arthur
TI  - The Great Wall of China: from history to myth 
SN  - 052142707X
U1  - 951 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Great Wall of China (China)
KW  - China
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-278) and index; 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
ER  -