Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Tracing the Origins of the Chinese Civilization(s)
Summary
This expansive and fascinating lecture will cover the mythological and anthropological origins of Chinese history, from the creation of the world out of a “chaos egg” to the rise of the Shang dynasty and its conquest by the Zhou dynasty and its subsequent Spring and Autumn periods.
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).