Rome and China

Hyun Jin Kim, the main editor of this volume, is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He took his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is the author of seven books on a wide range of subjects ranging from Greece-Rome and early China Comparative studies and Greek Ethnography to Inner Asian steppe history (Huns) and Geopolitics. Emeritus Professor Samuel N.C. Lieu is the current President of the International Union of Academies (Union Académique Internationale – UAI) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Until 2016 he was Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Ancient History at Macquarie University and a holder of the Discovery Outstanding Research Award (DORA) of the Australian Research Council. He was previously Professor of Ancient History and Classical Studies (personal chair) at Warwick University (UK). He has published extensively on the history of Manichaeism and of Christianity on the Silk Road.Raoul McLaughlin studied Ancient History and Archaeology at Queen’s University Belfast, completing his doctorate in Ancient History in 2006. He published his monograph as Rome and the Distant East (2010), followed by The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean (2014) and The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (2016). He tutored at Queen’s University Belfast until 2014 and currently works in a Clinical Care Facility. A founder member of The Classical Association in Northern Ireland, his recent research will lead to the publication of The Roman Empire and the Oasis Kingdoms and Ancient Ireland and the Roman Empire.

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Roman Envoys and Trade Ambassadors in Han China; Chapter 2: The Xiongnu Huns from China and the East to Europe and the Roman Empire; Chapter 3: Sodgian Ambassadors of the Göktürks and the Eastern Roman Empire; Chapter 4: ‘Nestorian’ Christians and Manichaeans as links between Rome and China; Conclusion; Bibliography

"Rome and China is that rare book that actually fills a significant gap in scholarship. Recently, books comparing aspects of Roman and Chinese civilization have proliferated, but a comprehensive study of relations between Rome and China has been lacking until now. In four lucidly written chapters, the authors trace contact between Eastern and Western Eurasia from the second century BCE to the seventh century CE... Recommended." - CHOICE