Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Final Class: The Rise of the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty
Summary
This is the final class on our studies of pre-modern China. Among the various topics covered will be: the Manchus and why their rise is connected to ginseng; the dual Manchu-Han government; the Opium Wars and the threat of the West.
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).