Yuri Pines

Yuri Pines (Hebrew: יורי פינס; Russian: Юрий Анатольевич Пинес; born 1964) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli sinologist and the Michael W. Lipson Professor of Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Pines was born in Kiev, Ukraine and immigrated to Israel in 1979. He studied under Lothar von Falkenhausen at UCLA and under Liu Zehua at Nankai University in Tianjin, earning a PhD at Hebrew University 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." 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 [in Hebrew]). With Gideon Shelach. Yitzhak Shichor, ed. Volume 1 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit (All under Heaven: Imperial China [in 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 [in Hebrew]). Volume 2 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit (All under Heaven: Imperial China [in Hebrew]). Raanana: The Open University Press, 2013 Sin ha-Keisarit ha-Meukheret (Late Imperial China [in Hebrew]) Volume 3 of Kol Asher mi-takhat le-shamaim: Sin Ha-Keisarit (All under Heaven: Imperial China [in Hebrew]).(in progress) with Michal Biran. Yitzhak Shichor, ed.,