The Great Wall of China : from history to myth
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The Great Wall of China : from history to myth
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Cambridge University Press, 1992
Canto ed.
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- : pbk
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First published 1990
Includes bibliography and index
内容説明・目次
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: hardback ISBN 9780521365185
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.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780521427074
内容説明
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 defences, and explores its profound implications for nomadic and agricultural life under the Ming dynasty. Taking up the insights offered into more recent Chinese politics, the book concludes with a searching investigation of the Wall's new meanings in the myths - departing from that history - fostered in our own century.
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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