Olga Gorodetskaya

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Olga Gorodetskaya
郭靜云
Olga Gorodetskaya giving a lecture
Olga Gorodetskaya
Born
Olga Rapoport

(1965-09-22) September 22, 1965 (age 58)
Moscow, USSR
OccupationAcademic
Known forGroundbreaking research of early Chinese history
SpouseLixin Guo
Academic background
Alma materAcademy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies[1]
Thesis"Human" in the historical process of Ancient China VIII-III BC
Doctoral advisorIgor Lisevich, Juri Kroll
Academic work
DisciplineHistory, archaeology, paleography, religious studies, anthropology, art history
Sub-disciplineHistory of Ancient China
InstitutionsNational Chung Cheng University
Main interestsAncient China
Notable worksXia, 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 ideasMiddle 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.[2] 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.[3]

Olga Gorodetskaya is currently a professor at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan,[4] and also a Ph.D. advisor and Zhujiang scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.[5]

Biography[edit]

Olga Gorodetskaya was born in the fall of 1965. 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.[1] 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.[6]

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;[7] 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.[4] During the period from 2012 to 2015, she had also been employed as a visiting professor by the Sun Yat-sen University.[5]

Olga Gorodetskaya, under the name Olga Rapoport, appeared as a political commentator and an expert on the Taiwanese politics in certain Russian-language media, particularly the Maria Maksakova YouTube channel. She usually voices PRC-friendly and pro-Kuomintang opinions and criticizes the Democratic Progressive Party.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "國家圖書館". ccs.ncl.edu.tw. Retrieved 2016-02-11.http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/ccs2/scholars_detail.aspx?sn=266
  2. ^ "Olga Gorodetskaya's Academia.edu webpage". Academia.edu.
  3. ^ "中国文明的源头是北方还是南方-中华读书报-光明网". epaper.gmw.cn. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  4. ^ a b 國立中正大學歷史學系暨研究所. "研究成果 :: 國立中正大學歷史學系暨研究所". depthis.ccu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  5. ^ a b "2012年广东省高等学校珠江学者岗位计划拟设岗学科和拟聘人选公示_委厅时讯_南方教育网". www.gdjy.cn. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  6. ^ 國立中正大學歷史學系暨研究所. "師資陣容 :: 國立中正大學歷史學系暨研究所". Archived from the original on 2016-07-27. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  7. ^ "國家圖書館".

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