Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Warring States Period and the Rise of the Hundred Schools of Thought: Confucius
Summary
China, Part 3. Continuing our deep dive in Chinese history, this presentation follows the political decline of the Zhou dynasty, the intensification of wars, the introduction of iron technology and the rise of the new social classes with the birth of Confucianism.
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).