Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Han Dynasty Continued: Unrest and Restoration
Summary
In this lecture we will discuss the social and political turmoil the Han dynasty faced after 200 years of rule and the strange case of the first usurper Wang Mang. We will also see how the dynasty was restored and ruled for another 200 years. We will end this discussion with the rise of the Three Kingdoms era.
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).