Conceiving the empire
Subtitle: China and Rome compared
By: edited by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Achim Mittag.
Contributors: Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner.; Mittag, Achim, 1958-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780199214648
Subjects: History, Ancient -- Historiography; Imperialism -- Historiography; China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D; Rome -- History -- Empire 30 B.C.-476 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Interlude : kingship and empire / Zhu Weizheng; title: The rhetoric of 'empire' in the classical era in China / Michael Nylan; title: B. Historiography and the emerging empire. Imagining the empire? Concepts of 'primeval unity' in pre-imperial historiographic tradition / Yuri Pines; title: 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; title: Pt. II. The firmly established empire. A. Imperial grandeur and historiography à la grande. The problem of 'imperial historiography' in Rome / Fritz-Heiner Mutschler; title: Forging legacy : the pact between empire and historiography in ancient China / Achim Mittag; title: 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; title: Text and image : mapping the Roman World / Katherine Clarke; title: C. Self-image and the formation of imperial rhetorics. Announcements from the mountains : the stele inscriptions of the Qin First Emperor / Martin Kern; title: The Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Roman Empire / Christian Witschel; title: 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; title: Imperial aura and the image of the other in Han art / Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens; title: 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; title: Empire on the brink : Chinese historiography in the post-Han period / Achim Mittag and Ye Min; title: 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; title: New tendencies, religious and philosophical, in the Chinese world of the third through sixth centuries / Thomas Jansen.