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Conceiving the empire China and Rome compared / edited by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Achim Mittag.
| Other author | Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner. |
| Other author | Mittag, Achim, 1958- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xx, 481 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 à 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 / Michèle 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 Gärtner 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009294273 |
| ISBN | 9780199214648 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199214646 (hbk.) |
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