Title Rome, China, and the barbarians : ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires / Randolph B. Ford, State University of New York, Albany

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : maps Contents 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2020) Subject History, Ancient -- Historiography Imperialism -- History National characteristics, Chinese -- History -- To 1500 Group identity -- Rome -- History National characteristics, Roman. Ethnic relations Group identity History, Ancient -- Historiography Imperialism National characteristics, Chinese National characteristics, Roman SUBJECT China -- Ethnic relations -- History -- To 1500 China -- History -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024042 Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128 Rome -- History -- Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115148 Subject China Rome (Empire) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019046111 ISBN 9781108601405 1108601405 9781108564090 1108564097 9781108596602 1108596606

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