Conceiving the Empire
China and Rome Compared
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 November 2008
- ISBN 9780199214648
- Binding Map
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 240x161x31 mm
- Weight 922 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
A collection of essays, by a team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, exploring the mental images and symbolical representations of `empire' that developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome.
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The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of `empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political thought and the history of ideas. Written by a collaborative team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, the volume focuses the attention of the emerging discipline of East-West cross-cultural studies on an essential feature of the ancient Mediterranean and Chinese worlds: the emergence of `empire' and the enduring influence of the `imperial' order.
This remarkably rich book represents a highly valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies of Rome and China
Table of Contents:
I. The Birth of the Imperial Order
A. The Idea of `Empire': Its Genesis before and its Unfolding after the Emergence of the Empire
City and Empire
Interlude: Kingship and Empire
The Rhetoric of `Empire' in the Classical Era in China
B. Historiography and the Emerging Empire
Imagining the Empire? Concepts of `Primeval Unity' in Pre-Imperial Historiographic Tradition
The Emergence of Empire: Rome and the Surrounding World in Historical Narratives from the Late Third Century BC to the Early First Century AD
II.The Firmly Established Empire
A. Imperial Grandeur and Historiography à la Grande
The Problem of `Imperial Historiography' in Rome
Forging Legacy: The Pact between Empire and Historiography in Ancient China
B.The Spatial Dimension of the Unified World: Imperial Geography and Cartographical Representations
Mapping China. The Spatial Dimension of the Unified World: Imperial Geography and Cartographical Representations in Early Imperial China
Text and Image: Mapping the Roman World
C. Self-Image and the Formation of Imperial Rhetorics
Announcements from the Mountains: The Stele Inscriptions of the Qin First Emperor
The Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Roman Empire
D. The Power of Images: Imperial Order and Imperial Aura as Represented in Art and Architecture
Image and Empire: The Shaping of Augustan Rome
Imperial Aura and the Image of the Other in Han Art
III. The Waning of the Imperial Order
A. History-Writing in the Face of Crisis
The Impact of the Empire's Crises on Historiography and Historical Thinking in Late Antiquity
Empire on the Brink: From the Demise of the Han Dynasty to the Fall of the Liang Dynasty. Notes on Chinese Historiography in the Wei-Jin-Nanbeichao Period
B. When the Imperial Order Disintegrates: Rethinking the `Empire' under Religious Auspices
New Tendencies, Religious and Philosophical, in the Roman Empire of the Third to Early Fifth Centuries
New Tendencies, Religious and Philosophical, in the Chinese World of the Third through Sixth Centuries
Epilogue
