Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691229591ISBN-10:691229597UPC:9780691229591Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Political, AsiaBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, ChinaSize:8.60 x 5.60 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SCYQJKR8G8
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agenda
As 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. In Plato Goes to China, Shadi Bartsch...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691229591ISBN-10:691229597UPC:9780691229591Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Political, AsiaBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, ChinaSize:8.60 x 5.60 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SCYQJKR8G8
Shadi Bartsch is an award-winning classicist and the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where she directs the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. She is the author and editor of numerous books and the translator of an acclaimed version of the Aeneid.
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