Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations : : Searching for a 'Respublica Romanosinica' / / ed. by Jaewon Ahn, Andrea Balbo, Kihoon Kim.

• MitwirkendeR: Ahn, Jaewon,; Andreini, Attilio,; Balbo, Andrea,; Ferrero, Michele,; Kim, Kihoon,; Kim, Weolhoi,; Lee, Sung-Won,; Malaspina, Ermanno,; Malinowski, Gościwit,; Riotto, Maurizio,; Rousselot, Philippe,; Sellers, Mortimer N. S.,; Setaioli, Aldo,; Stella, Francesco,; Yang, Juping,
• HerausgeberIn: Ahn, Jaewon,; Balbo, Andrea,; Kim, Kihoon,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Roma Sinica
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 289 p.)

The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica project conference held in Seoul in September 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. The contributors, coming from Korea, Europe, USA, China, Japan, propose new patterns of interpretation of the mutual interactions and proximities between these two cultural worlds and offer also a perspective of continuity between contemporary and ancient political thought. Therefore, this book is a reference place in the context of the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek thought) and Eastern thought. Researchers interested in Cicero, Seneca, Plato, post-Platonic and post Aristotelic philosophical schools, history, ancient Roman and Chinese languages could find interesting materials in this work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1 History and Politics in the Eastern Thought -- Imperator-Huangdi: The Idea of the Highest Universal Divine Ruler in the West and China -- The Character and Heritage of the Qin-Han Empire -- Co-existence of the Four Empires and the Emergence of the Maritime Silk Road: An Introduction -- Real and Imaginary Characters between Ancient Korea and the Silk Road -- Section 2 Language and Rhetoric -- Through the Lens of Archaeology: Data Cross-Referencing between Received and Manuscript Sources Related to Confucius and the Lunyu 論語 -- The Latin Translations of Confucian Terminology on Government and Rule in a 16th Century Manuscript of Michele Ruggieri, S.J. -- The Epistula praefatoria of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus: A Rhetorical Analysis in Search of Cicero and Seneca -- Androcles in China -- The New Communication System of Imperial Power in Carolingian Poetry -- Section 3 Eastern and Western Perspectives in Politics and history of ideas -- Empire and Politics in Eastern and Western Civilizations -- Pax Romana and Pax Sinica: Some Historical Aspects -- From ‘Zero Tolerance’ to ‘Turn the Other Cheek’ and Back: Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the Graeco-Roman Roots of a Modern Transcultural Dilemma -- Ubi solitudinem inveniunt, pacem appellant: French Colonial Empire as Rome’s Mirror -- Does Pax Mean Truly Peace? Focusing on The Declaration for the Peace of Asia of Ahn Junggeun (안중근) -- Bibliography -- Editors and Contributors -- Index