Arthur Waldron: 2 books

Book cover of The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China

From History to Myth

by Arthur Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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...
Book cover of The Modernization of Inner Asia
by Cyril E. Black, Louis Dupree, Elizabeth Endicott-West
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

Inner Asia - in premodern times the little-known land of nomads and semi-nomads - has moved to the world's front page in the 20th century as the complex struggles for the future of Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, Tibet and other territories make clear. But because Inner Asia as a whole is divided...
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