Plato Goes to China

“A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year”
“A revelatory look at how China uses, and sometimes abuses, classical thought… . Like Plato’s dialogues themselves, [this book] breathes with drama.”—Sean Durns, Washington Examiner
“A valuable volume.”—Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement
“Bartsch’s work is especially fitting for our time.”—Jesse Russell, The Federalist
“Masterful… .There is so much to unpack in Bartsch’s deeply researched book.”—Michael Sheridan, Engelsberg Ideas
“Original and penetrating.”—Paul Cartledge, Classics for All
“A critical, highly relevant journey into China through scholars’ interpretations of the ancient Greeks.” * Choice Reviews *
“Bartsch’s careful research ought to be of interest to philosophers, rhetoricians, and historians of the domestic and international variety.”—Christopher Giofreda, Thoughtfox
”[P]rofoundly important and thoroughly refreshing to read… . Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism vividly describes the wildly oscillating ideological use of Plato, Aristotle, and, to a much lesser extent, Thucydides on twentieth-century Chinese intellectual history.”—Christoph Harbsmeier, Journal of Chinese Studies

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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