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Native name
  
郭靜云

Title
  
Professor

Main interest
  
History of China

Full Name
  
Olga Rapoport

Spouse(s)
  
Movies
  
The Dive

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Born
  
September 22, 1965 (age 51) (
1965-09-22
)
Moscow, USSR

Nationality
  
Republic of China; Israel

Known for
  
Groundbreaking research of early Chinese history

Books
  
Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties: from Myths to Historical Facts

Similar
  
Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Kachan

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Olga Gorodetskaya (Rapoport), also known as Kuo Ching-yun, is a Taiwan (Republic of China) 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.

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Olga Gorodetskaya is currently a professor in the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, and also a part-time lecturer in the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

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Biography

Olga Gorodetskaya was born in the fall of 1965. Her father was Mikhail Rapoport, a linguist, and her mother was Svetlana Lazarevskaya-Blinova, a biologist. From 1983 to 1989 she studied painting, sculpture and architectural theory at the Soviet Academy of Arts. In 1989 she received a master's degree in art history at the Department of Art History of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. During the years from 1989 to 1993 she studied for her PhD in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specializing in world civilization and culture. Her major subject was Ancient Chinese culture. In 1993 she wrote her doctorate dissertation.

During the course of her studies, she visited Peking University on an exchange program. She also participated in an archaeological excavation in Crimea. During the period from 1982 to 1989 she worked at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Then, from 1989 to 1992 she worked at the State Museum of Oriental Art. Finally, during her last years in Moscow from 1993 to 2003, she worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 2003 she went to Taiwan, where she had several small-time jobs at first: working at the National Palace Museum; as a visiting scholar in the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library of Taiwan; as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of History; as an associate professor at Huafan University; as a visiting fellow at Academia Sinica; and in different positions at other schools. From 2007 to 2008 she had been a professor at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Since August, 2008 she has been a professor at the Department of History of the National Chung Cheng University. During the period from 2012 to 2015 she had also been employed as a visiting professor by the Sun Yat-sen University.

Works

  1. Benevolence and the Mandate of Heaven: Transformation of pre-Qin Confucian Classics. 2010. Taipei: Wan-juan-lou; 978-9-5773-9673-0.
  2. Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties: from Myths to Historical Facts. 2013. Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Books Press; 978-7-5325-6759-1.
  3. Spirits Of Heaven and Ways of Heaven & Earth 2016. Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Books Press; 978-7-5325-7713-2.

References

Olga Gorodetskaya Wikipedia