Lecture
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Fall of the Qin and the Rise of Han Dynasty: China’s First Golden Age
Summary
The fall of the Qin dynasty (206 BCE) in China led to widespread civil war. Out of this turmoil, the commoner Liu Bang rose to power, eventually establishing the Han Dynasty, which would go on to rule for the next four centuries, a period which saw the ascendance of the mandarin class and the establishment of Confucianism as the state ideology.
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.