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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

Ancient philosophy, comparative studies of ancient Greece and early China, childhood studies, reception of Greco-Roman classics in China.

Jenny works on ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophy through a comparative approach. Topics of particular interest include shame and the emotions, human nature and moral education, as well as representations of infancy and childhood in philosophical works.

Publications

Key publications: 

(With G. E. R. Lloyd) (eds.) Ancient Greece and China Compared. Cambridge 2018.

'Shame and Moral Education in Aristotle and Xunzi’ in Lloyd and Zhao (eds.) Ancient Greece and China Compared, Cambridge 2018, 110-130.

Review of R. A. H. King and D. Schilling ‘How Should One Live? Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 133, 2013, 300-302.

ISF Research Fellow, Clare Hall/Needham Research Institute
Dr Jingyi Jenny  Zhao

Contact Details

Darwin College, Silver Street
Cambridge CB3 9EU
Not available for consultancy

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The Faculty is delighted to report that Prof. Josephine Quinn was awarded the Prix des Libraires Payot 2026 on June 18 for her book, Et le monde créa L'Occident (or, How the World Made the West).