Conceiving the Empire
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China and Rome Compared
Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner (EDT)/ Mittag, Achim (EDT)
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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.
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
1: City and Empire, Albrecht Dihle
2: Interlude: Kingship and Empire, Zhu Weizheng
3: The Rhetoric of `Empire' in the Classical Era in China, Michael Nylan
B. Historiography and the Emerging Empire
1: Imagining the Empire? Concepts of `Primeval Unity' in Pre-Imperial Historiographic Tradition, Yuri Pines
2: 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 & Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
II.The Firmly Established Empire
A. Imperial Grandeur and Historiography à la Grande
1: The Problem of `Imperial Historiography' in Rome, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
2: 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
1: Mapping China. The Spatial Dimension of the Unified World: Imperial Geography and Cartographical Representations in Early Imperial China, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
2: Text and Image: Mapping the Roman World, Katherine Clarke
C. Self-Image and the Formation of Imperial Rhetorics
1: Announcements from the Mountains: The Stele Inscriptions of the Qin First Emperor, Martin Kern
2: 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
1: Image and Empire: The Shaping of Augustan Rome, Rolf Michael Schneider
2: Imperial Aura and the Image of the Other in Han Art, Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens
III. The Waning of the Imperial Order
A. History-Writing in the Face of Crisis
1: The Impact of the Empire's Crises on Historiography and Historical Thinking in Late Antiquity, Hans Armin Gärtner & Ye Min
2: 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, Achim Mittag & Ye Min
B. When the Imperial Order Disintegrates: Rethinking the `Empire' under Religious Auspices
1: New Tendencies, Religious and Philosophical, in the Roman Empire of the Third to Early Fifth Centuries, Gerard O'Daly
2: New Tendencies, Religious and Philosophical, in the Chinese World of the Third through Sixth Centuries, Thomas Jansen
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