Yuri Pines (b. Born: 1964, Kiev, Ukraine) is an Israeli sinologist and a professor at the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. Pines was born in Kiev,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

and immigrated to Israel as a child in 1979. He studied under Lothar von Falkenhausen at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

and under Liu Zehua at Nankai University, in

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...

, earning the PhD at

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

*''The Everlasting Empire: Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Enduring Legacy,'' Princeton University Press, 2012. *''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'' (Origins of the Chinese Empire n Hebrew. With Gideon Shelach. Yitzhak Shichor, ed. Volume 1 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit (All under Heaven: Imperial China n Hebrew. Raanana: The Open University Press, 2011. יורי פינס וגדעון שלח עם יצחק שיחור (עורך ראשי), מקורות הקיסרות הסינית) כרך א של סדרה כל אשר מתחת לשמיים: סין הקיסרית). רעננה: האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 2011. *uri Pines and Gideon Shelach, with Yitzhak Shichor, ed., Sin ha-Keisarit ha-Mukdemet (Early Imperial China n Hebrew. Volume 2 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit (All under Heaven: Imperial China n Hebrew. Raanana: The Open University Press, 2013 *''Sin ha-Keisarit ha-Meukheret'' (Late Imperial China n Hebrew Volume 3 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit (All under Heaven: Imperial China n Hebrew.(in progress) with Michal Biran. Yitzhak Shichor, ed.,

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