Book contents
- Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Antiquity in Global Context
- Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editors’ Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Crafting Space and Place
- Part II Performances of Power
- Part III Urban Places
- Part IV Fringe Places and Endpoints
- Index
- References
Introduction
Place and Performance – Comparative Remarks on Greece, Rome, and China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
Book contents
- Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Antiquity in Global Context
- Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editors’ Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Crafting Space and Place
- Part II Performances of Power
- Part III Urban Places
- Part IV Fringe Places and Endpoints
- Index
- References
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’.
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