Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Hundred Schools of Thought Continued: Daoism and Legalism
Summary
The Warring States and the Hundred Schools of Thought continued in our ongoing series on China. This presentation will also focus on two other responses to the conditions of the Warring States period; Laozi, Zhuangzi, and the withdrawal from political life; and Shang Yang and the harsh rise of legalism in the Qin state.
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).