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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Hans Beck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, Griet Vankeerberghen, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
    Published online:
    28 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    At some point in the first century BCE, Yang Yun, one of nine ministers at the Western Han court, fell from the emperor’s grace. His uprightness, incorruptibility, and administrative skills were appreciated far and wide, but Yang Yun’s tendency to brag about these abilities, combined with a personality that appeared somewhat aloof, was destined to create friction. In 56 BCE, a series of charges led to his denouncement and his being stripped of his official position and noble title. Yang Yun was spared the death penalty, at least for the time being, to live a commoner’s life beyond the imperial palace. In his own words, ‘I lead my wife and children, and they join my efforts in plowing fields and planting mulberries, in watering orchards and kitchen gardens, in managing money-making ventures from which we pay taxes to the state thereby’.

Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
  • Edited by Hans Beck, Griet Vankeerberghen
  • Published online:
    28 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024
  • 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.

  • The Many Faces of “the People” in the Ancient World

  • Edited by Hans Beck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, Griet Vankeerberghen, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book:
    Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
    Published online:
    19 January 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 1-22

  • Summary

    Few words in the historian’s vocabulary have such a wide semantic gulf as “the people.” Add to this the vast range of different languages, cultures, and layers of time in which “the people” are invoked, and the term translates into a commonplace. The present volume reclaims some of the conceptual capacity of “the people” in history. It looks at the ancient worlds of Greece, Rome, and China through the lens of cross-cultural comparison, addressing some of the key issues that related to the notion of “the people” in the variant of each civilization. In this vein of inquiry, the book raises a set of questions: the positional question of who “the people” were, also in relation to other people; the participatory question of how groups of “the people” constituted themselves through patterns of belonging and exclusion, and how their status, or nonstatus, was charged with meaning; and the conversational question of how “the people” communicated about their group cohesion and negotiated the omnipresence of imbalances in, for instance, gender, social status, political entitlement, economic ability, or cultural expertise.

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