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Rome, China, and the Barbarians : Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- Comparative History of Greece-Rome and China -- Roman Late Antiquity and Early Medieval China: Brief Historical Background -- Primary Que...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6185936 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- Comparative History of Greece-Rome and China -- Roman Late Antiquity and Early Medieval China: Brief Historical Background -- Primary Questions and Approaches -- Chapter 1 Ethnography in the Classical Age -- The Greco-Roman Ethnographic Tradition -- The Chinese Ethnographic Tradition -- Explanatory Paradigms in the Greco-Roman and Chinese Traditions -- Genealogy -- Geography, Climate, and Astrology -- History/Historical Change -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 The Barbarian and Barbarian Antitheses -- The Term ''Barbarian'' and Its Chinese Equivalents -- Views of Barbarians in the Greco-Roman Tradition -- Views of Barbarian Others in Ancient China -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Ethnography in a Post-Classical Age: The Ethnographic Tradition in the Wars and the Jin shu 晉書 -- Perpetuation of the Barbarian Antithesis -- Ethnographic Continuity -- Ethnographic Paradigms -- Ethnography and the New Barbarians -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 New Emperors and Ethnographic Clothes: The Representation of Barbarian Rulers -- Barbarian Figures in the Wars -- The Vandals -- The Goths -- Barbarian Figures in the Jin shu -- The Xiongnu 匈奴 Former Zhao 前 Dynasty -- The Jie 羯 Later Zhao 後 Dynasty -- The Särbi-Xianbei 卑 Former Yan 前燕 Dynasty -- The Ba-Di 巴氐 Chenghan 成漢 Dynasty -- The Xiongnu Xia 夏 Dynasty -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 The Confluence of Ethnographic Discourse and Political Legitimacy: Rhetorical Arguments on the Legitimacy of Barbarian Kingdoms -- Political Legitimacy -- Speeches in Greco-Roman and Chinese Historiography -- Speeches in the Jin shu -- Speeches in the Wars -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index. An exploration of ethnological thought in Greece, Rome, and China and its articulation during 'barbarian' invasion and conquest |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (392 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108601405 |
