{"product_id":"early-chinaancient-greece-steven-shankman-9780791453148","title":"Early China\/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Shankman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791453146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791453148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Steven Shankman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065127022847,"sku":"9780791453148","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49b0e477-e891-4aa5-b4d9-a6f99c3bb235.jpg?v=1768673168","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/early-chinaancient-greece-steven-shankman-9780791453148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}