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Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). Nicholas Morrow Williams analyzes how the poem's meaning evolved in different time periods and provides three new translations.

After centuries of enmity, why did Europe's Catholics and Protestants reconcile? Udi Greenberg argues that modern Christian cooperation arose not from tolerance but from fears of socialism, feminism, and Afro-Asian liberation movements. In seeking to preserve Christian life, these former rivals forged a lasting alliance that remade the continent.

Drawing on centuries of data, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty place today's French politics in historical context. France is divided among bourgeois and distinct urban and rural working-class blocs-historically, an unstable structure. The authors show how inequality breeds tripartite competition and argue for the greater potential of two-way rivalry.

The fiery debate over funding Jay Treaty sets political stage, and austic exchanges between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans row as rumors surface of George Washington's impending retirement. This title spans the period from July 1795 to the eve of John Adams' inauguration, with growing partisan divide to election playing a central role.

The early speeches. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part; together with his rhetorical treatises, they have long served as models for orators, advocates, and others. This volume contains four speeches from Cicero's pre-consular, and one from his consular period. Pro Quinctio, his earliest surviving defense (81), handles a complex commercial dispute deftly and in loftier style than usual in such cases. Pro Roscio Amerino, his first criminal case (80), is a successful defense on a politically fraught charge of parricide. Pro Roscio Comoedo (72 or 71) defends a famous actor and old friend involved in a financial dispute, with suitably theatrical flair. Pro Tullio (71), a dispute between neighbors about a deadly slave attack, casts light on social conditions in the Italian countryside in the aftermath of Spartacus' revolt. De Lege Agraria (63) successfully forces the withdrawal of a proposal for the distribution of agricultural land to the urban plebs. This edition replaces the original by John Henry Freese (1930). The texts have been freshly edited and translated, with full introductions and ample notation.

The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, he falls asleep, forgetting his identity. This edition includes the original Syriac text, a Greek translation, a Greek homily version, and English translation.

In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic "wonder drug" theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial power. The State Drug shows how regimes and medical authorities secured support by promoting and regulating theriac. In turn, it sheds new light on the relationship between medicine and authority in early modern Europe.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has become an aggressive financier, using sovereign funds at home and abroad to secure allies and influence, boost strategic industries like semiconductors and fintech, and pick winners among domestic businesses and multinationals.

The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world's most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.