Ancient Greece and China Compared

Qiaosheng Dong

doi:10.1017/9781316091609

Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.

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Ancient Greece and China Compared
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Ancient Greece and China Compared - Title page
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Figures
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Editions
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Contributors
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Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects
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- By G. E. R. Lloyd
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Part I - Methodological Issues and Goals
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1 - Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
pp 33-39
- By Nathan Sivin
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2 - Comparing Comparisons
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- By Walter Scheidel
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3 - On the Very Idea of (Philosophical?) Translation
pp 59-80
- By Robert Wardy
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Part II - Philosophy and Religion
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4 - Freedom in Parts of the Zhuangzi and Epictetus
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- By R. A. H. King
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5 - Shame and Moral Education in Aristotle and Xunzi
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- By Jingyi Jenny Zhao
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6 - Human and Animal in Early China and Greece
pp 131-159
- By Lisa Raphals
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7 - Genealogies of Gods, Ghosts and Humans: The Capriciousness of the Divine in Early Greece and Early China
pp 160-186
- By Michael Puett
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Part III - Art and Literature
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8 - Visual Art and Historical Representation in Ancient Greece and China
pp 189-233
- By Jeremy Tanner
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9 - Helen and Chinese Femmes Fatales
pp 234-256
- By Yiqun Zhou
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Part IV - Mathematics and Life Sciences
pp 257-352
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10 - Divisions, Big and Small: Comparing Archimedes and Liu Hui
pp 259-289
- By Reviel Netz
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11 - Abstraction as a Value in the Historiography of Mathematics in Ancient Greece and China: A Historical Approach to Comparative History of Mathematics
pp 290-325
- By Karine Chemla
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12 - Recipes for Love in the Ancient World
pp 326-352
- By Vivienne Lo, Eleanor Re’em
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Part V - Agriculture, Planning and Institutions
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13 - From the Harvest to the Meal in Prehistoric China and Greece: A Comparative Approach to the Social Context of Food
pp 355-372
- By Xinyi Liu, Evi Margaritis, Martin Jones
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14 - On Libraries and Manuscript Culture in Western Han Chang’an and Alexandria
pp 373-409
- By Michael Nylan
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Afterword
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- By Michael Loewe
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Index
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