Rome, China, and the barbarians: ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires

"This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and political fragmentation in Rome and China. Yet while the western Roman empire was never re-established, China was reunified at t...

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1. Verfasser: Ford, Randolph B. 1976- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and political fragmentation in Rome and China. Yet while the western Roman empire was never re-established, China was reunified at the end of the sixth century. Taking a comparative approach to the study of the broader historiographical and ethnographic traditions in the classical Greco-Roman and Chinese worlds, the book turns to the late antique/early medieval period, when the western Roman Empire "fell" and China was re-constituted as a united empire after centuries of foreign conquest and political division. Analyzing the discourse of ethnic identity in the original texts, with translations by Dr Ford, it explores the extent to which notions of Self and Other, of "barbarian" and "civilized," help us understand both the transformation of the Roman world as well as the restoration of a unified imperial China"--
Beschreibung:xx, 369 Seiten Karten
ISBN:9781108473958
9781108463010