What has Confucius got to do with a transatlantic quarrel and a post-truth epoch? As the Chinese past becomes an academic expression of a clash between superpowers, and as the question of Confucius's realness, or not, echoes a rather ludicrous Sino-American rivalry for pseudo world hegemony, Jean Levi regards, with a clinical and wry eye, current academia as an ideological battle site and an image of our time.
The Assassins of Confucius was published by Hermits United in 2023. This 2025 edition has an added postscript. The renowned sinologist tells of a recent archaeological discovery, which makes certain the validity of his 2023 argument.
