Lecture
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Legalist School of Thought and the Rise of the Qin State: China Unified as an Empire
How to watch
This lecture starts on 4 February at 5:00pm (UK).
Summary
This lecture will focus on the career of Lord Shang and his Legalist school of thought, the rise of the Qin state as the bastion of legalist policies c. 897 BCE and reforms (unification of writing, currency, roads), as well as book burning and the Great Wall.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author and editor of several books on Chinese History, Islamic History, and Jewish World history.