Tables of Contents for The Great Wall of China from History to Myth

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Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

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.