Taylor are centuries and cultures apart, they are both concerned with the ethics of authenticity. Dr. Lee argues that Li Zhi shows us how to reform Confucian philosophy, and those insights might indeed help us grapple with the complexities of the ethics of a globalized modern world. John H. Berthrong Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts One and Many: A Comparative Study of Plato’s Philosophy and Daoism Represented by Ge Hong. By Ji Zhang. (Monograph No. 22, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012. 364 Pp. 1 xxvi. Paperback, ISBN 978-0-8248- 3554-5.) Ji Zhang’s investigation of the ‘‘One and the Many’’ offers a fascinat- ing, though at times uneven, look into the metaphysical heart of ancient Greek and early Medieval Chinese thought. Several factors contribute to the said unevenness—hermeneutic methodology, philo- sophical argumentation, and typographical sloppiness—but let us begin by outlining its content and merits. Being a work of comparative philosophy makes it interesting from the outset; that it involves Ge Hong 葛洪 (ca. 284–343 CE) makes it doubly so. Why? To date, studies of Ge Hong’s writings have focused on his theories of alchemy and life-prolongation, ignoring those on cosmogony. It becomes especially important when discussing the Bao- puzi 《抱樸子》 (The Master who Embraces Simplicity) to sketch its connection to contemporary xuanxue 玄學 (Profound Learning) thinkers such as He Yan and Wang Bi, while also going back to the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi. In light of this Daoist philosophical line- age, Zhang argues that Ge Hong’s ‘‘religious philosophy reverses cos- mogony into soteriology whereby attaining immortality is to return to the formlessness of Dao’’ (p. xvii). The book is divided into two parts (textual studies and comparative ontology), the first of which alternates the focus of its six chapters between Ge Hong and Plato while the second part takes its three chapters to concurrently compare them by way of: Nothing, the One, and the Many. Briefly speaking, chapter one is dedicated to explicat- ing the idea of xuan 玄 and why Ge Hong chose to identify it with Dao Professor David Chai, Room 422, 4th Floor, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, e-mail: davidchai@cuhk.edu.hk BOOK REVIEWS 221