Plato goes to China : the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism / Shadi Bartsch.
"Do the ancient Greek classics of politics and philosophy arouse interest among the Chinese? The answer, according to Shadi Bartsch, is a resounding yes. Works by Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and to a lesser extent Cicero and Vergil, generally unknown to China during the millennia-long dynasti...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The ancient Greeks in modern China
- Jesuits and visionaries
- Classics after the crackdown
- Thinking with Plato's "Noble Lie"
- Rationality and its discontents
- A Straussian interlude
- Harmony for the world
- Thoughts for the present.