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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 November 2024
      05 December 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009389983
      9781009390026
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389983
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.85kg, 486 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, East Asian History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Global History
      Series:
      Antiquity in Global Context
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, East Asian History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Global History
    Series:
    Antiquity in Global Context
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    This book examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in specific locations. It highlights conceptions of place and performance, seeing both as crucial to the production of cultural meaning and communal cohesion, and as heavily dependent on the prevailing political culture. Whether urban or rural, global or local, central or fringe, public or private, real or imagined, theatrical or ritual, the places and performances highlighted serve to show both commonalities and differences between the ancient Mediterranean and early China. The range of places of comparison is also very diverse, including roads, gardens, neighbourhoods, hydraulic infrastructures, funerary performance, spectacles at court, and the everyday display of authority through clothing and fashion. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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    ‘This volume has succeeded in many respects. Its significance is, first, grounded in its sensitivity to using modern theories in ancient contexts … The volume’s use of a comparative perspective is another key source of its insights. What is especially impressive is the contributors’ incorporation of various dimensions and angles of comparison: the investigation of Chinese and Mediterranean terms with similar denotation, juxtaposition of primary sources of the same nature, the parallelism of social processes with similar levels of complexity, the dialogue between archaeological sites that have produced analogous remains, the contrast between politico-territorial landscapes of different states in the same stage of empire-formation, and so forth. The combination of these perspectives and approaches considerably enriches existing comparative frameworks in the study of ancient history.’

    Xiang Li Source: Journal of Chinese History

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