Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism Bartsch Shadi
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism Bartsch Shadi The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's…
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Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism Bartsch Shadi
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are interpreting--or is it misinterpreting?--the Greek classics. She shows how Chinese thinkers have dramatically recast the Greek classics to support China's political agenda, diagnose the ills of the West, and assert the superiority of China's own Confucian classical tradition.In a lively account that ranges from the Jesuits to Xi Jinping, Bartsch traces how the fortunes of the Greek In Plato Goes to China, Shadi Bartsch offers a provocative look at Chinese politics and ideology by exploring Chinese readings of Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and other ancient writers.
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