The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China

Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism

Leigh Jenco is associate professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (2010) and Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (2015).

Leigh Jenco

Ingesting Mercury and the Noble Lie: On Anthony Barbieri-Low’s “The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China” and Shadi Bartsch’s “Plato Goes to China”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Leigh Jenco is associate professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (2010) and Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (2015).

Leigh Jenco

Articles

Ingesting Mercury and the Noble Lie: On Anthony Barbieri-Low’s “The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China” and Shadi Bartsch’s “Plato Goes to China”