Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Yuan-Ming Transition
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Summary
This broad-ranging lecture will cover a wealth of topics, including: the fall of the Mongols and the rise of the Ming dynasty; the science, technology, and economy of the Yuan; the travels of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta; the Yongle Emperor and the Chinese Age of Sail under Admiral Zheng He; the coming of the Jesuits to China; and the rise of the Manchu threat from the North.
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).