Conceiving the empire : China and Rome compared /
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: g...
| Други автори: | Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner., Mittag, Achim, 1958- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Conceiving the empire. |
Съдържание:
- pt. 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 / Albrecht Dihle
- Interlude : kingship and empire / Zhu Weizheng
- The rhetoric of 'empire' in the classical era in China / Michael Nylan
- B. Historiography and the emerging empire. Imagining the empire? Concepts of 'primeval unity' in pre-imperial historiographic tradition / Yuri Pines
- The emergence of empire : Rome and the surrounding world in historical narratives from the late third century BC to the early first century AD / Huang Yang and Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
- pt. II. The firmly established empire. A. Imperial grandeur and historiography a la grande. The problem of 'imperial historiography' in Rome / Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
- Forging legacy : the pact between empire and historiography in ancient China / Achim Mittag
- B. The spatial dimension of the unified world : imperial geography and cartographical representations. Diagram (tu) and text (wen) : mapping the Chinese world / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
- Text and image : mapping the Roman World / Katherine Clarke
- C. Self-image and the formation of imperial rhetorics. Announcements from the mountains : the stele inscriptions of the Qin First Emperor / Martin Kern
- The Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Roman Empire / Christian Witschel
- D. The power of images : imperial order and imperial aura as represented in art and architecture. Image and empire : the shaping of Augustan Rome / Rolf Michael Schneider
- Imperial aura and the image of the other in Han art / Michele Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens
- pt. 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 / Hans Armin Gartner and Ye Min
- Empire on the brink : Chinese historiography in the post-Han period / Achim Mittag and Ye Min
- 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 / Gerard O'Daly
- New tendencies, religious and philosophical, in the Chinese world of the third through sixth centuries / Thomas Jansen.