The Great Wall of China : from history to myth
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The Great Wall of China : from history to myth
（Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature and institutions）
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Bibliography: p. 256-278
Includes index
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内容説明
This 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.
目次
- 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.
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