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At the theoretical level, Bartsch shows that Plato's I Republic i and the creation myth underpinning the ideal city, Kallipolis, have been the subject of considerable discussion in China. I Plato goes to China i is an expanded version of the Martin Lectures that Shadi Bartsch delivered at Oberlin College in 2018. [Extracted from the article]

Synthetic in its coverage and eclectic in its chosen episodes, Caquet's fast-paced narrative frequently treats "drug prohibition" as synonymous with "drug control" (p. 13.) Moreover, the author criticizes the move to equate "narcotics" with "illicit drugs" as "a historical category, and not a scientific one" (p. 333). This book offers "a history of drug prohibition" from 1813, when the Qing dynasty's Jiaqing emperor issued a major opium edict, up to the present. [Extracted from the article]