Yuri Pines
Yuri Pines is a Ukrainian-born Israeli sinologist and the Michael W. Lipson Professor of Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Pines was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to Israel in 1979. He studied under Lothar von Falkenhausen at UCLA and under Liu Zehua at Nankai University in Tianjin, earning a PhD at Hebrew University in 1998.
Pines attributes the endurance of the unified Chinese state, in both the imperial and contemporary periods, "to the fact that philosophers of the Warring States period, whatever their other differences, agreed on the principle of unification under a powerful ruler, and this principle became the basis of Chinese political thought."
Books
- Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography
- The Book of Lord Shang: ''Apologetics of State Power in Early China
- The Everlasting Empire: Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Enduring Legacy,.
- Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Era, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.
- Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
- Mekorot Ha-Keisarut Ha-Sinit. With Gideon Shelach. Yitzhak Shichor, ed. Volume 1 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit. Raanana: The Open University Press, 2011.
- uri Pines and Gideon Shelach, with Yitzhak Shichor, ed., Sin ha-Keisarit ha-Mukdemet. Volume 2 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit. Raanana: The Open University Press, 2013
- Sin ha-Keisarit ha-Meukheret'' Volume 3 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit. with Michal Biran. Yitzhak Shichor, ed.,