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Zheng Yang

Lecturer

Email:zheya@163.com

Education (2000-2010)

Ph D. In Oriental Philosophies and Religions, Nanjing University

M.A. In World History, Nanjing University

B.A. In History, Nanjing University

Research Interests

I personally research the history of Western civilization by analyzing the interaction between religion and society. Firstly, I focus on the Jewish civilization of the Second Temple period. During this period, Jewish civilization had deep interaction with civilizations such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome. One of the most important results is the interaction between Jewish civilization and Greek civilization in Roman Empire, which gave birth to Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Then I focus on the issue of church reform in Western Europe during the 11th century. The unique historical experience of the Western Europe in the 10th century has brought the Christianization in Western Europe into a new era. The Monastic Reform, the Peace of God Movement and the reform of Papacy, all these trends of changing gradually gathered to reach the climax in the Papal Revolution and made a unique historical contribution to the separation of sanctity and power in Western civilization.

Teachings

Undergraduate

Ancient World History

Three Major World Religions

Publications（in Chinese）

Articles

1. “On the Jewish Policy of Flavian Dynasty”, Economic and Social History Review, No.3, 2019.

2. “A Review of The New Cambridge Medieval History on the Occasion of the Publication of Its Chinese Translation”, Historiography Quarterly, No.1, 2018, with Prof. HOU Jianxin as the first author.

3. “Study on the Undergraduate Curriculum of History Department of Cambridge University”, History Research and Teaching, No.5, 2017

4. “Ethnic space and the Diaspora of the Jews”, Jewish Studies, Vol. 8, 2010

5. “On the Ideological System of Josephus”, Academia Bimestris, No.2,2010

6. “On the First Hellenization of Jewish Society”, Academia Bimestris,No.6, 2009

7. “On Philo's Theory of Education”, Academia Bimestris, No.3,2008.

Translations (English to Chinese)

1. A. Cameron, B. Ward-Perkins & M. Whitby, eds., The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 14: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600, chap. 18, 19, 20, 21a, 21b, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, Forthcoming.

2. J. Cannon, ed., Oxford Dictionary of British History, from Letter I to M, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2018.

3. A. Feldherr, G. Hardy, eds., The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600,chap.9, Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Co., 2017, collaborated with Dr. LIU Xuefei.

4. S. J. D. Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2012.

5. F. Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Brief History, Volume 1, chap. 3,4,5,6,7,8, 9, Beijing: Peking University Press, collaborated with Dr. SONG Lihong, Dr XIONG Ying, Dr LU Yanming.

6. R.S. Bagnall, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Co., 2007, collaborated with Dr. SONG Lihong.

Funded Research Projects

1. Jewish Ideas in Greco-Roman Mediterranean World，（Project of the National Social Science Fund of China, No. 14CSS002, finished）

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