Чудесная история из гонконгской South China Morning Post. В Китае усомнились в существовании Аристотеля. Его, мол, придумали только в 13 веке в рамках утверждения европоцентричного сознания, с которым теперь надо бороться. Jin is not a historian but a leading expert on China-US relations at Renmin University in Beijing and an adviser to the Chinese government. He is also an influencer on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, where a video clip of his speech on Aristotle went viral last month, generating a tsunami of public debate on the reliability of Western history. “Aristotle just popped up, and what made it more suspicious was that he seems to have an all-encompassing body of knowledge, ranging from optics and ethics to economics and politics,” he said in the video. Историки не согласились с таким открытием, подвергнув автора откровений критике. Однако, отмечает газета, это показательный пример войны против западного исторического нарратива, которую поощряет руководство КПК. In a speech in 2019, Zhang Weiwei, a Shanghai-based theorist of China’s model of political and economic development, urged the Chinese public to challenge their pro-Western biases. “It can even be said that this ‘West-centric view’ still dominates the field of Western social sciences,” he said, adding that “many Chinese have also been deeply influenced by it, which is one of the reasons contributing to their lack of cultural self-confidence”. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3240339/aristotle-becomes-latest-casualty-chinas-narrative-war-west-scholar-questions-philosophers-existence?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage