Emperors And Ancestors

Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198736820

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Emperors and Ancestors by Olivier Hekster Pdf

This is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which Roman imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Rather than focusing on individual rulers of the Roman Empire, it evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations of power over a prolonged period of time.

Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191056550

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Emperors and Ancestors by Olivier Hekster Pdf

Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Looking beyond individual rulers, Hekster evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations over a prolonged period of time. The volume explores how the different media in use sent out different messages. The importance of local notions and traditions in the choice of local representations of imperial ancestry are emphasized, revealing that there was no monopoly on image-forming by the Roman centre and far less interaction between central and local imagery than is commonly held. Imperial ancestry is defined through various parallel developments at Rome and in the provinces. Some messages resonated outside the centre but only when they were made explicit and fitted local practice and the discourse of the medium. The construction of imperial ancestry was constrained by the local expectations of how a ruler should present himself, and standardization over time of the images and languages that could be employed in the 'media' at imperial disposal. Roman emperorship is therefore shown to be a constant process of construction within genres of communication, representation, and public symbolism.

Author : David Faure
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804767939

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Emperor and Ancestor by David Faure Pdf

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

Author : Xiaonan Deng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004473270

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The Ancestors' Instructions Must Not Change: Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period by Xiaonan Deng Pdf

This book offers an account of how ‘ancestors’ instructions’ were used and abused in the Song period. It digs deeply into abundant resources to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse of ancestors’ instructions.

Author : Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 052092679X

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The Last Emperors by Evelyn S. Rawski Pdf

The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new interpretation of the remarkable success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture, as has previously been believed, but rather from an artful synthesis of Manchu leadership styles with Han Chinese policies.

Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009226790

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Caesar Rules by Olivier Hekster Pdf

A riveting portrayal of what the inhabitants of the Roman Empire expected of their ruler and their feelings about him.

Author : Harry Hussey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015011368332

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Venerable Ancestor by Harry Hussey Pdf

Author : Ji Lu
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Selected Biographies of Chinese Emperors in Major Dynasties by Ji Lu Pdf

The book is the volume of "Selected Biographies of Chinese Emperors in Major Dynasties" among a series of books for "100 Biographies on Chinese Historical Figures".

Author : William H. Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110805314

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Ancestors by William H. Newell Pdf

Author : Hung, Hing Ming
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628944181

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The Magnificent Emperor Wu by Hung, Hing Ming Pdf

Hing Hing Ming reviews some of the major episodes of the Han Dynasty, from its founding by Liu Bang to the Lü Clan Disturbance and subsequent diplomatic overtures and military campaigns against the minor Chinese kingdoms, the Mongols, and Gojoseon (the ancient Korean Kingdom).

Author : Frank Ching
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0449903532

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Ancestors, 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family by Frank Ching Pdf

This true celebration of Chinese life begins and ends with the author as he traces his family back thirty-four generations to the eleventh century. Through illuminating family portraits, the history of China comes magically alive.

Author : Zhaoyuan Tian,Shuxian Ye,Hang Qian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811559280

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Myths of the Creation of Chinese by Zhaoyuan Tian,Shuxian Ye,Hang Qian Pdf

Drawing on the sun, moon, dragon, phoenix, Nuwa, Yandi, Huangdi and other widely circulated cultural elements as examples, this book addresses the development and evolution of the most representative Chinese creation myths regarding nature, totems, ancestors and saints. The book not only interprets key creation myths, but also elaborates on the connection between the myths and some of the core values and concepts in Chinese civilization. For example, the long and jade culture is rooted in the Yellow Emperor’s revered jade weapon. Further, the book reveals the kernels of truth in the myths by presenting new research findings and research methods.

Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004213999

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Enigma of the Emperors by Ben-Ami Shillony Pdf

This important new and original study on the institution of the Japanese emperors focuses on the enigma of the institution itself, namely, the extraordinary continuity of the Japanese dynasty, which is unknown anywhere else in the world, yet which is now at risk on account of more recent laws of succession.

Author : Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684175093

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Picturing Heaven in Early China by Lillian Lan-ying Tseng Pdf

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed an immortal realm to which humans could ascend after death. Using excavated materials, Lillian Tseng shows how Han artisans transformed various notions of Heaven—as the mandate, the fantasy, and the sky—into pictorial entities. The Han Heaven was not indicated by what the artisans looked at, but rather was suggested by what they looked into. Artisans attained the visibility of Heaven by appropriating and modifying related knowledge of cosmology, mythology, astronomy. Thus the depiction of Heaven in Han China reflected an interface of image and knowledge. By examining Heaven as depicted in ritual buildings, on household utensils, and in the embellishments of funerary settings, Tseng maintains that visibility can hold up a mirror to visuality; Heaven was culturally constructed and should be culturally reconstructed.

Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004168220

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The Emperors of Modern Japan by Ben-Ami Shillony Pdf

The book offers a fascinating picture of the four emperors of modern Japan, their institution, their personalities and their impact on the history of their country. Leading scholars from Japan and other countries have contributed essays which treat this subject from various angles.