Subject: Mongols--History--14th-16th centuries

Mongol empire : its rise and legacy. [Tschingis-Cha und sein Erbe. English]
AuthorPrawdin, Michael, 1894-1970
PlaceNew York
PublisherFree Press
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition1st Free Press paperback ed.
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS19 .C522 1967
Description581 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
NoteThe Mongol empire : its rise and legacy / by Michael Prawdin [i.e. M. Charol] ; translated by Eden and Cedar Paul.
Translation of: Tschingis-Chan und sein Erbe.
Reprint of the rev. 4th impression, 1961.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [559]-564) and index.
The Great Wall of China : from history to myth
AuthorWaldron, Arthur 林蔚
PlaceCambridge, Eng.
PublisherCambridge University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesCambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
ShelfReading Room, Digital Archives
Call NumberDS793.G67 W25 1990 + pdf
Descriptionxiii, 296 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Note

The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-278) and index.

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.

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.

Another copy O'Neill Library

Local access dig.pdf. [Waldron-Great Wall of China.pdf]

ISBN052136518X
LCCN88-32689
Tiemu'er diguo 帖木兒帝國. [Timor et les Timourides. Chinese]
AuthorFeng Chengjun 馮承鈞, 1885-1946Bouvat, Lucien
PlaceTaibei Shi 臺北市
PublisherTaiwan Shangwu yinshuguan 臺灣商務印書館
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition臺1版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook
SeriesShidi congshu 史地叢書
ShelfStacks
Call NumberDS23.1.T536 B788 1962
Description4, 195 p. ; 19 cm.
NoteTiemu'er diguo 帖木兒帝國 / Buwa 布哇 (Lucien Bouvat) zhuan 撰 ; Feng Chengjun yi 馮承鈞譯.
Translation of: Timor et les Timourides.
民國51 [1962].