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• Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism
• Shadi Bartsch
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780691229607
• Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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 offers a provocative look at Chinese politics and ideology by exploring Chinese readings of Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and other ancient writers. 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 classics have changed in China since the seventeenth century. Before the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the Chinese typically read Greek philosophy and political theory in order to promote democratic reform or discover the secrets of the success of Western democracy and science. No longer. Today, many Chinese intellectuals use these texts to critique concepts such as democracy, citizenship, and rationality. Plato’s “Noble Lie,” in which citizens are kept in their castes through deception, is lauded; Aristotle’s Politics is seen as civic brainwashing; and Thucydides’s criticism of Athenian democracy is applied to modern America. What do antiquity’s “dead white men” have left to teach? By uncovering the unusual ways Chinese thinkers are answering that question, Plato Goes to China opens a surprising new window on China today.

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.
Plato Goes to China by Shadi Bartsch | Book review
Plato Goes to China is a study of Chinese academics and policymakers who draw on interpretations of classical texts.
PLATO GOES TO CHINA: The Greek Classics and Chinese .
The concluding Chapter, 'Thoughts for the Present', opens thus: 'The frame on which this book hangs is a study of broad and mostly nationalistic .
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.
Plato Goes To China - Shadi Bartsch
This book in an entirely new field provides a provocative look at Chinese politics and ideology through contemporary Chinese readings of ancient Greek classical .
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.
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.
Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism
Shadi Bartsch, Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780691229591.

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