Rome, China, and the Barbarians - Ford, Randolph B. (State University of New York, Albany)
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Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in critical periods of barbarian invasion and conquest. Gives original insights into the 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire and the sixth-century reunification of China.

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Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in critical periods of barbarian invasion and conquest. Gives original insights into the 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire and the sixth-century reunification of China.
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Randolph B. Ford currently teaches Roman history at the State University of New York, Albany. He has previously taught Roman history, Rome-China comparative history, and Latin language at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He obtained his doctorate at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, where his dissertation received the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities Award. His research has concentrated on comparative approaches to the study of the Greco-Roman world and ancient China.