Conceiving the Empire

China and Rome Compared

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Achim Mittag (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

512 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
9780199214648 (ISBN)

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A collection of essays, by a team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, exploring the mental images and symbolical representations of `empire' that developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome.

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.

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler is Professor of Classics at Dresden University. Achim Mittag is Professor of Chinese Studies at Tübingen University.

I. THE BIRTH OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER; A. THE IDEA OF 'EMPIRE': ITS GENESIS BEFORE AND ITS UNFOLDING AFTER THE EMERGENCE OF THE EMPIRE; B. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGING EMPIRE; II.THE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED EMPIRE; A. IMPERIAL GRANDEUR AND HISTORIOGRAPHY A LA GRANDE; B.THE SPATIAL DIMENSION OF THE UNIFIED WORLD: IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; C. SELF-IMAGE AND THE FORMATION OF IMPERIAL RHETORICS; D. THE POWER OF IMAGES: IMPERIAL ORDER AND IMPERIAL AURA AS REPRESENTED IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE; III. THE WANING OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER; A. HISTORY-WRITING IN THE FACE OF CRISIS; B. WHEN THE IMPERIAL ORDER DISINTEGRATES: RETHINKING THE 'EMPIRE' UNDER RELIGIOUS AUSPICES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.11.2008
Zusatzinfo	35 in-text illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	922 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-13	9780199214648 / 9780199214648
Zustand	Neuware