Plato Goes To China - Shadi Bartsch

The Surprising Story Of How Greek Classics Are Being Pressed Into Use In Contemporary China To Support The Regimes Political Agendaas Improbable As It May Sound, An Illuminating Way To Understand Todays China And How It Views The West Is To Look At The Astonishing Ways Chinese Intellectuals Are Interpretingor 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 Chinas Political Agenda, Diagnose The Ills Of The West, And Assert The Superiority Of Chinas Own Confucian Classical Tradition.