What China and India Once Were: The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future (Paperback)

Preface
Maps
Introduction, by Benjamin Elman and Sheldon Pollock
Part I
1. Life and Energy, by Kenneth Pomeranz and Sumit Guha
2. Conquest, Rulership, and the State, by Pamela Crossley and Richard M. Eaton
3. Gender Systems: The Exotic Asian and Other Fallacies, by Beverly Bossler and Ruby Lal
Part II
4. Relating the Past: Writing (and Rewriting) History, by Cynthia Brokaw and Allison Busch
5. Sorting Out Babel: Literature and Its Changing Languages, by Stephen Owen and Sheldon Pollock
Part III
6. Big Science: Classicism and Conquest, by Benjamin Elman and Christopher Minkowski
7. Pilgrims in Search of Religion, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Richard H. Davis
8. Art and Vision: Varieties of World Making, by Eugene Wang and Molly Aitken
Afterword: The Act of Comparing (Both Sides, Now), by Haun Saussy and Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chronology
Chinese and Indian Terms
List of Contributors
Index