The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions) The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitude.This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held
| TITLE | : | The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.97 (180 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 052136518X |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 310 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1990-07-27 |
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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 attitude
EDITORIAL :
From Publishers Weekly China's modern rulers have nurtured the popular myth that the Great Wall of China is a single, continuous barrier built in the third century B.C. and surviving to the present. Actually, as Princeton historian Waldron demonstrates in a landmark study, most of what we today call the Great Wall was built during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Despotic, palace-reared Ming rulers, fearful of a potential invasion by Mongols and other nomads, chose wall-building over trade or diplomatic relations. But the Ming fortifications, like the French Maginot Line, proved ineffective: Manchu warriors entered China in 1644, captured Peking and established the Ch'ing dynasty, a vast multiethnic empire which lasted until 1912. The Great Wall became a symbol of failure and irrelevance. Its recent transformation into China's unofficial national symbol is an enigma deftly unraveled in Wald
REVIEW :
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With beautiful, eye catching illustrations, the simple message of this book comes through. She is now 2 and this is still one of her favorite books. Refer to Fundamentals of Air Pollution.
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