An edition of Conceiving the empire
(2008)
Conceiving the empire
China and Rome compared
by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
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Conceiving the empire: China and Rome compared
2008, Oxford University Press
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Table of 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.
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