Ori Sela
Biographic Data
| ID | 2086819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ori Sela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ori |
| FAMILY NAME | Sela |
| SIGNATURE | SELA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2114-3604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Global Enlightenment
China and the Arab Gulf States, post-Covid
Over the past three years China's security and diplomatic engagement in the Middle East has been improvisational and opportunistic, seeking to exploit the US engagement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine, and Gaza and serving the Chinese aim of using political and diplomatic support in the Middle East to counter what it sees as a US effort to encircle and contain China's power and influence. Yet China is not seeking to replace the US as …
Philology Strikes Back
This article examines the features that demonstrate philology’s consolidation as a discipline and summarizes these features or markers in a concise manner, so that they may, perhaps, be employed in other cases, even outside the Sinological sphere. These markers include shared scholarly ethos and epistemological stance; shared methodology; shared sources, doubts, and research questions; shared social infrastructure; shared argumentation style and …
Sino–American relations and the ‘new cold war’
This article examines the value of the ‘Cold War’ analogy – which has become a commonly used shorthand to describe the Sino–American rivalry – for understanding the effects of the current great power competition in the Middle East. Instead of thinking in terms of the zero‐sum logic of the Cold War, we are using the Cold War history in the Middle East as a heuristic device to sharpen our understanding of today's dilemmas. In other words, we are ar…
China's Philological Turn
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China's Philological Turn, Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin to reconstruct the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences
To Feel at Home in the Wonderful World of Modern Science”
Argument In recent decades a large body of scholarship on the first half of twentieth-century China has successfully shown the ways in which history and historiography had been constructed at the time, as well as the links between history, national identity, education, and politics that was forged during this period. In this paper, I examine Qing intellectual history, in particular that of the mid or “High Qing.” I discuss the development of the …
Introduction
The funeral procession of Sheng Xuanhuai (盛宣懷, 1844–1916) – the renowned Qing scholar-official, financier, and “father of Chinese industrialism” – meandered through the streets of Shanghai on 18 November 1917. The funeral was a grand event, one that was purportedly documented in film, later to be distributed as the first “news short-film” (新聞短片) in China. The North China Herald reported on the event in some detail, at times in rather florid langu…
The Communal Search for Truth in Concrete Facts
One of Benjamin Elman's most significant contributions to Chinese intellectual history in general, and to Qing intellectual history in particular, has been his in-depth exploration of the “revolution”—“revolution in discourse,” “epistemological revolution,” “philological revolution,” or, more generally, the “intellectual revolution”—that took place during the eighteenth century. Elman has also demonstrated how the “professionalization of academic…
Through the Prism of a Plagiarism Debate
During the twentieth century Dai Zhen (1724-77) has been accused by some of plagiarizing the work of Itō Jinsai (1627-1705). Others refuted the accusations, and a debate has been raging on this subject. In this paper I explore the similarities between the works of the two scholars; analyze the possibility and plausibility of Dai using Jinsai's work; and historicize the plagiarism debate itself. In doing so I unravel the complexities of Sino-Japan…
Confucian Scientific Identity
This essay deals with a battle that, on the surface, appeared to be a battle over scientific issues but in its deeper echelons was also a cultural battle over the very identity of eighteenth-century Confucian scholars. It reveals tensions between “ancients” and “moderns,” between Chinese Confucians, Western Jesuits, and the adherents of their scientific teachings. The works of Qian Daxin—one of the most prominent scholars of the time—serve as the…
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Confucian Scientific Identity
This essay deals with a battle that, on the surface, appeared to be a battle over scientific issues but in its deeper echelons was also a cultural battle over the very identity of eighteenth-century Confucian scholars. It reveals tensions between “ancients” and “moderns,” between Chinese Confucians, Western Jesuits, and the adherents of their scientific teachings. The works of Qian Daxin—one of the most prominent scholars of the time—serve as the…
Through the Prism of a Plagiarism Debate
During the twentieth century Dai Zhen (1724-77) has been accused by some of plagiarizing the work of Itō Jinsai (1627-1705). Others refuted the accusations, and a debate has been raging on this subject. In this paper I explore the similarities between the works of the two scholars; analyze the possibility and plausibility of Dai using Jinsai's work; and historicize the plagiarism debate itself. In doing so I unravel the complexities of Sino-Japan…
To Feel at Home in the Wonderful World of Modern Science”
Argument In recent decades a large body of scholarship on the first half of twentieth-century China has successfully shown the ways in which history and historiography had been constructed at the time, as well as the links between history, national identity, education, and politics that was forged during this period. In this paper, I examine Qing intellectual history, in particular that of the mid or “High Qing.” I discuss the development of the …
Introduction
The funeral procession of Sheng Xuanhuai (盛宣懷, 1844–1916) – the renowned Qing scholar-official, financier, and “father of Chinese industrialism” – meandered through the streets of Shanghai on 18 November 1917. The funeral was a grand event, one that was purportedly documented in film, later to be distributed as the first “news short-film” (新聞短片) in China. The North China Herald reported on the event in some detail, at times in rather florid langu…
The Communal Search for Truth in Concrete Facts
One of Benjamin Elman's most significant contributions to Chinese intellectual history in general, and to Qing intellectual history in particular, has been his in-depth exploration of the “revolution”—“revolution in discourse,” “epistemological revolution,” “philological revolution,” or, more generally, the “intellectual revolution”—that took place during the eighteenth century. Elman has also demonstrated how the “professionalization of academic…
China's Philological Turn
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China's Philological Turn, Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin to reconstruct the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences
Sino–American relations and the ‘new cold war’
This article examines the value of the ‘Cold War’ analogy – which has become a commonly used shorthand to describe the Sino–American rivalry – for understanding the effects of the current great power competition in the Middle East. Instead of thinking in terms of the zero‐sum logic of the Cold War, we are using the Cold War history in the Middle East as a heuristic device to sharpen our understanding of today's dilemmas. In other words, we are ar…
Philology Strikes Back
This article examines the features that demonstrate philology’s consolidation as a discipline and summarizes these features or markers in a concise manner, so that they may, perhaps, be employed in other cases, even outside the Sinological sphere. These markers include shared scholarly ethos and epistemological stance; shared methodology; shared sources, doubts, and research questions; shared social infrastructure; shared argumentation style and …
China and the Arab Gulf States, post-Covid
Over the past three years China's security and diplomatic engagement in the Middle East has been improvisational and opportunistic, seeking to exploit the US engagement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine, and Gaza and serving the Chinese aim of using political and diplomatic support in the Middle East to counter what it sees as a US effort to encircle and contain China's power and influence. Yet China is not seeking to replace the US as …
A Global Enlightenment
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