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Lecture

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Reforms? The Intellectual Fermentation Inside China, the Reformist Thinking: Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao

Tuesday 7.04.2026

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This lecture starts on 7 April at 5:00pm (UK).

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at New York University. 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); 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).