Plato Goes to China (eBook)

The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism

Shadi BARTSCH (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22961-4 (ISBN)

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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 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. 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 "e;Noble Lie,"e; 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 "e;dead white men"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: ancient China • Ancient Greece • Business card • Cape Ann • Capitalism • Carl Schmitt • Central Committee of the Communist Party of China • Chen Duxiu • China • China–United States relations • Chinese Academy of Sciences • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences • Chinese Buddhism • Chinese characters • Chinese Culture • chinese dictionary • Chinese Economic Reform • Chinese literature • Chinese mythology • Chinese nationalism • Chinese New Left • Chinese Painting • Chinese People • Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries • Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference • Chinese philosophy • Chinese Wikipedia • Christian mortalism • city-state • Classical Antiquity • classical chinese • Communist Party of China • communist state • Conditions (magazine) • Confucianism • Confucius • Dunhua • economy • Emperor of China • General Office of the Communist Party of China • General Secretary of the Communist Party of China • Government of China • Hainan University • Han Feizi • hui shi • hu jintao • Hu Yaobang • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Jian • Jilin University • Legalism (Chinese philosophy) • Leo Strauss • Liang Qichao • Liu Xiaobo • Mainland China • Mainland Chinese • Mandarin Chinese • Mao Yuanxin • Mencius • Ming Dynasty • Modern China (journal) • Mou Zongsan • Nanjing University • Neo-Confucianism • new Confucianism • Nishi Amane • Peking University • Peng (mythology) • Philosopher • Philosopher King • Philosophy • Platonic realism • Pope Clement XI • Port of Piraeus • President of the People's Republic of China • President of the Republic of China • Qianlong emperor • Qin Shi Huang • Rationality • Republic (Plato) • Shandong • Shandong University • Shangdi • The Berkshires • the mandarins • Tiananmen Square • Tianxia • Wen Jiabao • Western Culture • Western Philosophy • written chinese • Wu Enyu • Xi Jinping • Xunzi (book) • Yale College • Zhang Zhidong • Zhao Ziyang • Zheng (state) • Zhou dynasty • Zhuangzi (book)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22961-9 / 0691229619
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22961-4 / 9780691229614