Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
About Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).
Zvi Ben-Dor’s lectures (19)
Date
Title
7 January
Tracing the Origins of the Chinese Civilization(s)
14 January
China, Part 2: The Rise of the Zhou Dynasty
21 January
The Warring States Period and the Rise of the Hundred Schools of Thought: Confucius
28 January
The Hundred Schools of Thought Continued: Daoism and Legalism
4 February
The Legalist School of Thought and the Rise of the Qin State: China Unified as an Empire
11 February
The Fall of the Qin and the Rise of Han Dynasty: China’s First Golden Age
18 February
Han Dynasty Continued: Unrest and Restoration
25 February
The Three Kingdom Period
4 March
The Song-Yuan Period: China Among Equals, China Under the Mongols
11 March
The Yuan-Ming Transition
18 March
Final Class: The Rise of the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty
25 March
The Ten Lost Tribes, Part 1
1 April
The Ten Lost Tribes, Part 2: How Did the Ten Tribes Become Lost?
8 April
Exile Goes Deep
15 April
Exile Enters the Second Millennium: The Spread of Talmud
22 April
The Age of Expulsions and Massacres: Medieval England and France