Olga Gorodetskaya
Olga Gorodetskaya | |
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郭靜云 | |
Olga Gorodetskaya | |
| Born | Olga Rapoport September 22, 1965 |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | Groundbreaking research of early Chinese history |
| Spouse | Lixin Guo |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies |
| Thesis | "Human" in the historical process of Ancient China VIII-III BC |
| Doctoral advisor | Igor Lisevich, Juri Kroll |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History, archaeology, paleography, religious studies, anthropology, art history |
| Sub-discipline | History of Ancient China |
| Institutions | National Chung Cheng University |
| Main interests | Ancient China |
| Notable works | Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties: from Myths to Historical Facts; Benevolence and the Mandate of Heaven: Transformation of pre-Qin Confucian Classics; Spirits Of Heaven and Ways of Heaven & Earth |
| Notable ideas | Middle Yangtze river as the birthplace of the earliest Chinese civilization |
Olga Gorodetskaya (born 22 September 1965), also known as Kuo Ching-yun (Chinese: 郭靜云), is a Soviet-born Taiwan-based historian, known mostly for her research into early Chinese history and archaeology. Olga Gorodetskaya is the author of a contemporary book on Ancient Chinese history, Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties: from Myths to Historical Facts. The book and as a result its author are a subject of considerable controversy within the Sinological academia, especially so within the People's Republic of China.
Olga Gorodetskaya is currently a professor at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, and also a Ph.D. advisor and Zhujiang scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.