Introduction / Steven Shankman ; Stephen W. Durrant |
What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinologists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers / David L. Hall1.: |
No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies / Haun Saussy2.: |
Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece / Michael Puett3.: |
"These Three Come Forth Together, But are Differently Named": Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato / 4.: |
Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding / Roger T. Ames5.: |
Alluding to the Text, or the Context / C. H. Wang6.: |
Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece / David N. Keightley7.: |
The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric / David Schaberg8.: |
Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle's Ethics and the Zhongyong / Andrew Plaks9.: |
Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece / Lisa Raphals10.: |
Cratylus and Xunzi on Names / Anthony C. Yu11.: |
Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women in the Archaemenid and Han Empires / Michael Nylan12.: |
Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes? / 13.: |
List of Contributors |
Index |
Introduction / Steven Shankman ; Stephen W. Durrant |
What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinologists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers / David L. Hall1.: |
No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies / Haun Saussy2.: |