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Rome, China, and the Barbarians - Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires (Paperback, New edition)
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Rome, China, and the Barbarians - Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires (Paperback, New edition)
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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
reestablished, China was reunified at the end of the sixth century.
Following a comparative discussion of earlier 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 reconstituted as
a united empire after centuries of foreign conquest and political
division. Analyzing the discourse of ethnic identity in the
historical texts of this later period, with original translations
by the author, the book 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.
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