Olga Gorodetskaya
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Olga Gorodetskaya
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| Native name | 郭靜云 |
| Born |
Olga Rapoport September 22, 1965 Moscow, USSR |
| Occupation | National Chung Cheng University |
| Known for | Groundbreaking research of early Chinese history |
| Title | Professor |
| Spouse(s) | 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, 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.
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.
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. 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.
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