Early China/ancient Greece : thinking through comparisons / edited by Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What has Athens to do with Alexandria? Or why sinologists can't get along with(out) philosophers / David L. Hall -- No time like the present: the category of contemporaneity in Chinese studies / Haun Saussy -- Humans and gods: the theme of self-divinization in early China and early Greece / Michael Puett -- "These three come forth together, but are differently named": Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato / Steven Shankman -- Thinking through comparisons: analytical and narrative methods for cultural understanding / Roger T. Ames -- Alluding to the text, or the context / C.H. Wang -- Epistemology in cultural context: disguise and deception in early China and early Greece / David N. Keightley -- The logic of signs in early Chinese rhetoric / David Schaberg -- Means and means: a comparative reading of Aristotle's ethics and the Zhongyong / Andrew Plaks -- Fatalism, fate, and stratagem in china and Greece / Lisa Raphals -- Cratylus and Xunzi on names / Anthony C. Yu -- Golden spindles and axes: elite women in the Archaemenid and Han empires / Michael Nylan -- Creating tradition: Sima qian agonistes? / Stephen W. Durrant.