Author: Joan Judge File Type: pdf Print and Politics offers a cultural history of a late Qing newspaper, Shibao, the most influential reform daily of its time. Exploring the simultaneous emergence of a new print culture and a new culture of politics in early-twentieth-century China, the book treats Shibao as both institution and text and demonstrates how the journalists who wrote for the paper attempted to stake out a middle realm of discourse and practice. Chronicling the role these journalists played in educational and constitutional organizations, as well as their involvement in major issues of the day, it analyzes their essays as political documents and as cultural artifacts. Particular attention is paid to the language the journalists used, the cultural constructs they employed to structure their arguments, and the multiple sources of authority they appealed to in advancing their claims for reform. **

Author: Plutarch File Type: epub Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexanders conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarchs biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vivid portraits of their subjects with a wealth of historical information they constitute a uniquely important source for the period. We see how Greek politics changed as Macedons power grew, and we learn of the warlords who followed Alexander. Resistance to Macedon is reflected in the Lives of Demosthenes and Aratus, and that of Agis and Cleomenes, two revolutionary kings of Sparta. The volume concludes with the emergence of Rome in Greek affairs, and the life of Flamininus, the Roman general who defeated Philip V of Macedon. Plutarchs elegant style combines anecdote and erudition, humour and psychological insight, consummately translated by Robin Waterfield and introduced by Andrew Erskine. These Lives from the Hellenistic period complement Greek Lives and Roman Lives in Oxford Worlds Classics. ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. **Review With a chronology and maps, this is a practical and helpful book for the student of the Hellenistic period Ray Morris, Classics for All Reviews About the Author Robin Waterfield is a writer living in Greece. His previous translations for Oxford Worlds Classics include Platos Republic and five other editions of Platos dialogues, Aristotles Physics, Herodotuss Histories, Polybiuss Histories, Plutarchs Greek Lives and Roman Lives, Euripidess Orestes and Other Plays and Heracles and Other Plays, Xenophons The Expedition of Cyrus, Demostheness Selected Speeches and The First Philosophers The PreSocratics and the Sophists. He is the author of Dividing the Spoils The War for Alexander the Greats Empire (Oxford, 2011). Andrew Erskine is the author of The Hellenistic Stoa Political Thought and Action (DuckworthBristol Classical Presss 1990, 2011), Troy between Greece and Rome Local Tradition and Imperial Power (Oxford, 2001), and Roman Imperialism (Edinburgh UP, 2009). He has edited a number of books including A Companion to the Hellenistic World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). He is a general editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012).