Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared

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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

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Empire in the Classical Era in China (323 BC-AD 316).Michael Nylan
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 & Min & Ye
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
Mapping China. The Spatial Dimension of the Unified World: Imperial Geography and Cartographical Representations in Early Imperial China.Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
New Tendencies, Religious and Philosophical, in the Roman Empire of the Third to Early Fifth Centuries.Gerard O'Daly
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 & Mutschler & Fritz-Heiner
The Impact of the Empire's Crises on Historiography and Historical Thinking in Late Antiquity.Hans Armin Gartner & M. Ye
The Impact of the Empire's Crises on Historiography and Historical Thinking in Late Antiquity.Hans Armin Gärtner & Min & Ye
The Problem of `Imperial Historiography' in Rome.Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
The Rhetoric of `Empire' in the Classical Era in China.Michael Nylan
City and Empire.  (pages 5)Albrecht Dihle
Interlude: Kingship and Empire.  (pages 29)Zhu Weizheng
Imagining the empire? Concepts of 'Primeval Unity'in pre-imperial historiographic tradition.  (pages 67--90)Yuri Pines
The Emergence of Empire.  (pages 91)Huang Yang & Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
Forging Legacy: The Pact between Empire and Historiography in Ancient China.  (pages 143)Achim Mittag
Diagram (tu) and Text (wen).  (pages 169)Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
Text and Image.  (pages 195)Katherine Clarke
The Res Gestae Divi Augusti and the Roman Empire.  (pages 241)Christian Witschel
Image and Empire.  (pages 269)RolfMichael Schneider
Empire on the Brink.  (pages 347)Achim Mittag & Ye Min
New Tendencies, Religious and Philosophical, in the Chinese World of the Third through Sixth Centuries.  (pages 397--419)Thomas Jansen
Glossary of Chinese Characters.  (pages 455)Da Ya

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