Jingyi Jenny Zhao is ISF Academy Senior Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and Needham Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her research takes a cross-cultural comparative perspective on the ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophical traditions. She is co-editor and contributor of Ancient Greece and China Compared, and was interviewed for the BBC documentary Story of China.

What would Aristotle and Xunzi have made of one another's ethical systems? Thanks to Jingyi Jenny Zhao, we are closer than ever to envisioning that conversation. Zhao's subtle virtuosity in multiple realms--philology, philosophy, and cultural history--equips her to do groundbreaking work in the field of what I call 'Comparative Classics.'

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction1. Aristotle and Xunzi - Their Times, Texts, and Audiences2. Mapping the Vocabulary of 'Shame' 3. Human Nature and the Social Basis for Communities4. Shame and the Path to Moral Goodness5. Social Institutions and the Politics of Moral Education Epilogue

Jingyi Jenny Zhao is ISF Academy Senior Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and Needham Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her research takes a cross-cultural comparative perspective on the ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophical traditions. She is co-editor and contributor of Ancient Greece and China Compared, and was interviewed for the BBC documentary Story of China.

What would Aristotle and Xunzi have made of one another's ethical systems? Thanks to Jingyi Jenny Zhao, we are closer than ever to envisioning that conversation. Zhao's subtle virtuosity in multiple realms--philology, philosophy, and cultural history--equips her to do groundbreaking work in the field of what I call 'Comparative Classics.'

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction1. Aristotle and Xunzi - Their Times, Texts, and Audiences2. Mapping the Vocabulary of 'Shame' 3. Human Nature and the Social Basis for Communities4. Shame and the Path to Moral Goodness5. Social Institutions and the Politics of Moral Education Epilogue

Jingyi Jenny Zhao is ISF Academy Senior Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute and Needham Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her research takes a cross-cultural comparative perspective on the ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophical traditions. She is co-editor and contributor of Ancient Greece and China Compared, and was interviewed for the BBC documentary Story of China.

What would Aristotle and Xunzi have made of one another's ethical systems? Thanks to Jingyi Jenny Zhao, we are closer than ever to envisioning that conversation. Zhao's subtle virtuosity in multiple realms--philology, philosophy, and cultural history--equips her to do groundbreaking work in the field of what I call 'Comparative Classics.'

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction1. Aristotle and Xunzi - Their Times, Texts, and Audiences2. Mapping the Vocabulary of 'Shame' 3. Human Nature and the Social Basis for Communities4. Shame and the Path to Moral Goodness5. Social Institutions and the Politics of Moral Education Epilogue