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Dr. Ori Sela is a senior visiting researcher at the Israel-China Policy Center - The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation at the INSS. He is also a senior lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University, of which he served as Chair until late 2022. He specializes in the history of Early-Modern and Modern China, and is interested particularly in the reciprocal relationship between intellectual history and socio-political history at various crossroads in China's past, as well as in the history of science and technology, military history, and China's international relations. The transition from China's imperial era into the nation-state building of the twentieth century, along with the crucial roles history has played and continues to play in current affairs, is another facet of his research and teaching, specifically as it pertains to contemporary China.
In the past 7 years, he has been leading a project on China in the Middle East in collaboration with the Dayan Center at TAU. Sela earned his PhD from Princeton University, published in leading academic journals, and his 2018 book (Columbia University Press) was awarded the renowned 2020 Levenson Prize. His most recent book (edited with Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Joshua Fogel) deals with the significance of Sinology for understanding modern China (University of Hawai'i, 2023).
