Plato Goes to China : : The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism / / Shadi Bartsch.
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 in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editions and Translations
- Introduction: The Ancient Greeks in Modern China
- 1 Jesuits and Visionaries
- 2 Classics after the Crackdown
- 3 Thinking with Plato’s “Noble Lie”
- 4 Rationality and Its Discontents
- 5 A Straussian Interlude
- 6 Harmony for the World
- 7 Thoughts for the Present
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index