Ancient Greece and China compared

This book represents a growing trend to compare and contrast the development of ancient societies of Greece/Rome with imperial China in order to bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. 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 civilizations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.