Prof. Yitzhak Shichor
Department of Asian Studies

Email: msshic@mscc.huji.ac.il
Telephones: 04-8288524, 02-5882310
Fax: 02-5335837
Office hours: Wednesday, 14:00-16:00

 
 


Courses Taught

 


Research Areas

China's Defense Conversion
Sino-Middle Eastern Relations
China's International Energy Policy
Ethnonationalism in Xinjiang and Its International Implications
China's Labor Export in Historical Perspective
The Uyghur Diaspora
East Asian Democratization Processes

  Education
Ph.D. - International Relations, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (1973-1976)
M.A. - Summa cum laude, History of the Islamic Countries (Major) with related Chinese Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1968-1972).
B.A. - Political Science, History of the Islamic Countries, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1965-1968).
 

Positions

Acting Chairman, Department of East Asian Studies, the University of Haifa (2005)
Professor, The University of Haifa (2002- )
Adjunct Professor, The University of Haifa (2000-2001)
Head, Tel-Hai Academic College (1997-2000)

At the Hebrew University

Professor Emeritus (2001- )
Chairman, Department of Political Science (1993-1995)
The Michael William Lipson Chair in Chinese Studies (1993- )
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Department of East Asian Studies (1992-2001)
Dean of Students (1990-1994)
Chairman, Department of East Asian Studies (1984-1987)
Coordinator of Social Sciences, The Joseph Saltiel Center for Pre-Academic Studies (1985-1987)
Senior Research Fellow, The Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement
of Peace the Truman Institute (1983- )
Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Department of East Asian Studies (1982-1992)
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies (1977-1982)
Executive Director, The Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (1976-1983)

Publications


Books and Monographs

  1. Origins of the Chinese Empire (Ed.), (Ra'anana: the Open University, 2007), in
    Hebrew, forthcoming.
  2. The Early Chinese Empire (Ed.), (Ra'anana: the Open University, 2008), forthcoming.
  3. Peaceful Fallout: The Conversion of China’s Military Nuclear Complex to
    Civilian Use    , Brief 10 (Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion, November 1997).
  4. China’s Defense Capability: The Implications of Military-to-Civilian Conversion, CAPS Papers No. 8 (Taipei: Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, April 1995).
  5. Military-to-Civilian Conversion in China: from the 1980s to the 1990s, Working Paper No. 142 (Canberra: Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, December 1993).
  6. China and the Palestine Liberation Organization: Ups and Downs, Policy Publication No. 42 (Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, the Hebrew University, 1991), in Hebrew.
  7. A Multiple Hit: China’s Missiles Sale to Saudi Arabia, SCPS Papers, No. 5 (Kaohsiung: Sun Yat-sen Center for Policy Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University, 1991).
  8. East Wind Over Arabia: Origins and Implications of the Sino-Saudi Missile Deal, China Research Monographs No. 35 (Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989).
  9. Small Cracks in the Great Wall: The Prospects of Sino-Israeli Relations, Research Report No. 5 (London: Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1987).
  10. The Middle East in China’s Foreign Policy 1949-1977 (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979). Reprinted 1981.
  11. People’s China, Tradition versus Change (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence, 1979), in Hebrew.


    Articles and Chapters
  12. "Net Nationalism: the Globalization of Uyghur Diasporas," in: Adoni Alonso and
    Pedro J. Oiarzabal (Eds.), Digital Diasporas (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2008), forthcoming.
  13. "Limping on Two Legs: Uyghur Diaspora Organizations and the Prospects for
    Eastern Turkestan Independence," Central Asia and the Caucasus, No. 6 (48) (December 2007), forthcoming.
  14. "Introduction," "Conclusion," in: Yitzhak Shichor (Ed.), The Early Chinese
    Empire     (Ra'anana: the Open University, 2008), in Hebrew, forthcoming.
  15. "Missiles Myths: China's Threat to Taiwan in Historical Perspective," China
    Security     (December 2007), forthcoming.
  16. "Mao's Thought: Origins and Originality," Zmanim (January 2008), forthcoming,
    in Hebrew.
  17. "Introduction," "Conclusion," in: Yitzhak Shichor (Ed.), Origins of the Chinese
    Empire (Ra'anana: the Open University, 2007), in Hebrew, forthcoming.
  18. "China's Darfur Policy," China Brief (Washington: The Jamestown Foundation),
    Vol. 7, Issue 7 (April 5, 2007), pp. 5-8.
  19. "Reconciliation: Israel's Prime Minister in Beijing," China Brief (Washington: The
    Jamestown Foundation), Vol. 7, Issue 2 (January 24, 2007), pp. 12-14.
  20. "Competence and Incompetence: The Political Economy of China's Relations with
    the Middle East," Asian Perspective, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2006), pp. 39-67.
  21. "A New Beginning: Changing the Guards at the World Uyghur Congress," China
    Brief (    Washington: The Jamestown Foundation), Vol. 6, Issue 25 (December 19, 2006), pp. 12-14.
  22. "Uygur Diasporasi: Bir Arastirma Projesinin Preliminer Neticeleri," [The Uyghur
    Diaspora: Preliminary Conclusions of a Research Project], Gökbayrak [Heavenly Flag], Vol. 13, No. 74 (November-December 2006), pp. 26-27 (in Turkish).
  23. "China's Upsurge: Implications for the Middle East," Israel Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 4
    (September 2006), pp. 665-683.
  24. "China's Voting Behavior in the UN Security Council," China Brief (Washington:
    The Jamestown Foundation), Vol. 6, Issue 18 (September 6, 2006),
    pp. 4-6.
  25. "Silent Partner: China and the Lebanon Crisis," China Brief (Washington: The
    Jamestown Foundation), Vol. 6, Issue 17 (August 16, 2006), pp. 2-4.
  26. "Zhongdong anquan ping sheng zhong de Zhongguo yinsu: Yisilie de shijiao"
    [The Chinese Factor in the Middle East Security Equilibrium: an Israeli Perspective], in: Jonathan Goldstein (Ed.), Zhongguo yu yutai–Yisilie guanxi 100 nian [China's Jewish-Israeli Relations: a Hundred Year Retrospective (1903-2003)], (Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe [the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Publishing House], 2006), pp. 189-222 (a Chinese translation of item 49).
  27. "Disillusionment: China and Iran's Nuclear Gamble," Freeman Report, July-
    August 2006 (Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies,
    Georgetown University: July-August 2006).
  28. "Fact and Fiction: A Chinese Documentary on 'Eastern Turkestan Terrorism',"
    China and Central Asia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2 (May 2006), pp. 89-
    108.
  29. "China's Revolution in Higher Education," China Brief (Washington: The
    Jamestown Foundation), Vol. 6, Issue 5 (March 2, 2006), pp. 6-8.
  30. "China's Kurdish Policy," China Brief (Washington: The Jamestown Foundation),
    Vol. 6, Issue 1 (January 3, 2006), pp.3-6.
  31. "China and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict," in Cheryl A. Rubenberg (Ed.)
    Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner), forthcoming.
  32. "Sudan: China's Outpost in Africa," China Brief (Washington: The Jamestown
    Foundation), Vol. 5, Issue 21 (October 13, 2005), pp. 9-11.
  33. "Blow Up: Internal and External Challenges of Uyghur Separatism and Islamic
    Radicalism to Chinese Rule in Xinjiang," Asian Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 2
    (Summer 2005), pp. 119-135.
  34. "The U.S. Factor in Israel’s Military Relations with China," China Brief
    (Washington: The Jamestown Foundation), Vol. V, Issue 12 (May 24, 2005), pp. 7-9.
  35. "Ironies of History: The Russia-Japan War and the Origins of East Asian
    Radicalism," in: Rotem Kowner (Ed.), The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2006), pp.199-218.
  36. "Decisionmaking in Triplicate: China and the Three Iraqi Wars," in: Andrew
    Scobell and Larry Wortzel (Eds.), Chinese Decision-Making under Stress (Carlisle PA: Strategic Studies Institute, September 2005), pp. 191-228.
  37. "Company Province: Civil-Military Relations in Xinjiang," in: Nan Li (Ed.),
    Chinese Civil-Military Relations: The Transformation of the People’s Liberation Army (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 135-150.
  38. "Forced Landing: Sino-Israeli Security Relations in the Early 2000s," in: K.
    Santhanam and Srikanth Kondapalli (Eds.), Asian Security and China 2000-2010 (Delhi: Shipra, 2004), pp. 387-399.
  39. “Reverse Globalization: China’s International Energy Policy,” Politika [Politics],
    Nos. 11-12 (Summer-Winter 2003-2004), pp. 121-139 (in Hebrew).
  40. “The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang,” in: Frederick A. Starr (Ed.), Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), pp. 120-160, 408-415.
  41. “Pacifying the West: Confidence-Building Measures between China and Central Asia,” in: George Cristian Maior and Larry Watts (Eds.), Globalization of Civil-Military Relations: Democratization, Reform and Security (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedica, 2002), pp. 239-258.
  42. “Ironies of History: The Russia-Japan War and the Origins of East Asian Radicalism,” in: Rotem Kowner (Ed.), The Conflict That Shaped the 20th Centrury: The Russia-Japan War and Its Legacy (Tel Aviv: Maarachot, 2004), in Hebrew, forthcoming.
  43. “Military-Civilian Integration in China: Legacy and Policy,” in: Constantine P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra Vajpeyi, and Amir Bar-Or (Eds.), Civil-Military Relations, Nation Building and National Identity: Comparative Perspectives (New York: Greenwood, 2004), forthcoming.
  44. “Virtual Transnationalism: Uygur Communities in Europe and the Quest for Eastern Turkestan Independence,” in: Jørgen S. Nielsen and Stefano Allievi (Eds.), Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 281-311.
  45. “The Role of Defence Industry in China’s Quest of Power and Security Problems, Processes, and Prospects,” in: Jasjit Singh and Bjørn Møller (Eds.), Defence Doctrines and Strategies in Asia (London: Macmillan, 2002), forthcoming.
  46. “Much Ado about Nothing: Middle East Perceptions of the ‘China Threat’,” in: Herbert Yee (Ed.), The China Threat – Perceptions, Myths and Reality, (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2002), pp. 312-331.
  47. “From Horse to Horsepower: Energy in China’s Relations with Central Asia,” Pacifica Review, Vol. 13, Nos. 1&2 (February-June, 2001), pp. 91-105.
  48. “Domestic Dimensions of Disarmament: The Case of China,” in: Jozef Goldblat (Ed.), Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to Banishing the Bomb (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000), pp. 217-226.
  49. “Mountains Out of Molehills: Arms Transfers in Sino-Middle Eastern Relations,” Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), Vol. IV, No. 3 (Fall 2000), pp. 68-79.
  50. “Civil Society and the Public Sphere in China,” in: S.N. Eisenstadt, Luis Roniger and Ilana F. Silber (Eds.), Collective Identities, Citizenship and Public Sphere (Jerusalem, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 1999), pp. 41-45.
  51. “China’s Economic Relations with the Middle East: New Dimensions,” in: P. R. Kumaraswamy (Ed.), China and the Middle East: The Quest for Influence (New Delhi and London: Sage Publication, 1999), pp. 178-199.
  52. “The Chinese Factor in the Middle East Security Equation: An Israeli Perspective,” in: Jonathan Goldstein (Ed.), China and Israel, 1948-1998: A Fifty Year Retrospective (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999), pp. 153-178.
  53. With Reuven Merhav, “The Hong Kong Connection in Sino-Israeli Relations,” in: Jonathan Goldstein (Ed.), China and Israel, 1948-1998: A Fifty Year Retrospective (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999), pp. 95-106.
  54. “China’s Economic Relations with the Middle East: New Dimensions,” China Report, Vol. 34, Nos. 3&4 (1998), pp. 419-439.
  55. “Israel’s Military Transfers to China and Taiwan,” Survival, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 68-91.
  56. “Defence Conversion and Conservation: China’s Ambivalent Military Reform,” in: Bjørn Møller (Ed.), Security, Arms Control and Defence Restructuring in East Asia (Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1998), pp. 145-165.
  57. “Demobilisation: The Dialectics of PLA Troop Reduction,” in: David Shambaugh and Richard H. Yang (Eds.), China’s Military in Transition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 72-95.
  58. “Conversion and Diversion: the Politics of China’s Military Industry after Mao,” in: Efraim Inbar and Ben-Zion Zilberfarb (Eds.), Politics and Economics of Defence Industries (London: Frank Cass, 1998), pp. 135-163.
  59. “Converting the Military Aviation Industry to Civilian Use,” in: Jörn Brömmelhörster and John Frankenstein (Eds.), Mixed Motives, Uncertain Outcomes: Defense Conversion in China (Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp. 101-133.
  60. “Demobilisation: the Dialectics of PLA Troop Reduction,” The China Quarterly, No. 146 (June 1996), pp. 336-359.
  61. “Stability and Development: China’s Dilemmas in Its Central Asian Edge", Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale [Center for the Study of International Politics] (Rome, 1995).
  62. “Separatism: Sino-Muslim Conflict in Xinjiang,” Pacifica Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1994), pp. 71-82.
  63. “Hide-and-Seek: Sino-Israeli Relations in Perspective,” Israel Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 16-35.
  64. “The Chinese Perspective,” in: Israel and the Far East: Evolving Strategic Relationships, Discussions on National Security, No. 7 (BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, September 1994), pp. 8-14, in Hebrew.
  65. “Military-to-Civilian Conversion in China,” Peace and the Sciences, Vol. XXIV (December 1993), pp. 36-45.
  66. “Two Steps Forwards, One Step Backwards: Sino-Israeli Relations in the 1980s,” in: Benyamin Neuberger (Ed.), War and Peacemaking: Selected Issues in Israel’s Foreign Relations (Tel Aviv: The Open University, 1992), pp. 417- 439, in Hebrew.
  67. “China’s Defence in a Changing World,” in: Kevin P. Clements (Ed.), Peace and Security in the Asia Pacific Region: Post Cold War Problems and Prospects (Dunmore & United Nations University, 1992), pp. 183-203.
  68. “China’s Defence in a Changing World,” China Report, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1992), pp. 125-139.
  69. “Confucianism in One Country: Some Reflections on Universalistic and Particularistic Collective Identity in China,” in: S.N. Eisenstadt (Ed.), Axial Age Civilizations II: Their Institutional and Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 1, China, Japan (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1992), pp. 91-107, in German.
  70. “Mass Leadership in Chinese Communism,” in: Irad Malkin and Zeev Tsahor (Eds.), Leaders and Leadership in Jewish and World History (Jerusalem: The Historical Society of Israel and The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1992), pp. 297-313, in Hebrew.
  71. “China and the Middle East since Tiananmen,” in: Allen S. Whiting (Special Editor), “China’s Foreign Relations,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 519 (January 1992), pp. 86-100.
  72. “China and the Gulf Crisis: Escape from Predicaments,” Problems of Communism, Vol. XL, No. 6 (November-December 1991), pp. 80-90.
  73. “China and the Role of the United Nations in the Middle East: Revised Policy,” Asian Survey, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (March 1991), pp. 255-269.
  74. “Defence Policy Reform,” in: Gerald Segal (Ed.), Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Reform (London: Kegan Paul International, 1990), pp. 77-99.
  75. “China after the Students Demonstrations: Continuity and Change,” Notebooks of Socialist Thought, No. 14 (1990), pp. 95-108, in Hebrew.
  76. “Chinese Reform in the Post-Mao Era,” (12.1.88) in: China after Mao (Tel Aviv: Lavon Institute for the Study of the Labor Movement, n.d.), pp. 14-33, in Hebrew.
  77. “China after the Students Riots,” (5.9.89), in: China after Mao (Tel Aviv: Lavon Institute for the Study of the Labor Movement, n.d.), pp. 34-51, in Hebrew.
  78. “Post-Mao China’s Military Reforms: Some International Implications,” in: Gerald Segal and Akihito Tanaka (Eds.) China’s Reform in Crisis (London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1989), pp. 208-245.
  79. “Ten Years of Grace: China after Mao,” Masa Acher [A Different Trip], No. 8 (1989), pp. 25-27, in Hebrew.
  80. “China as an Upcoming Superpower,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey], Vol. 36, No. 5 (June 1989), pp. 3-11, in Hebrew.
  81. “Unfolded Arms: Beijing’s Recent Military Sales Offensive,” The Pacific Review, Vol. I, No. 3 (October 1988), pp. 320-330.
  82. “The Year of the Silkworms: China’s Arms Transactions, 1987,” in: Richard H. Yang (Ed.), SCPS Yearbook on PLA Affairs 1987 (Kaohsiung: Sun Yat-sen Center for Policy Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University, 1988), pp. 153- 168.
  83. “The Judicial System in Traditional China,” in: Michael Atlan (Ed.), Lectures and Sources in Comparative Sociology of the Judiciary in Historical Civilizations (Jerusalem: Academon, 1987), pp. 9-25, in Hebrew.
  84. “Long, Delicate Process” (A survey of Sino-Israeli relations), Spectrum (October 1987), pp. 4-5.
  85. “Israel-China: Splits in the Bamboo Curtain,” Politica, No. 12 (January 1987), pp. 42-45, in Hebrew.
  86. “China and the Middle East after Mao: New Roles in an Old Game,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey] No. 5 (July 1986), pp. 43-50, in Hebrew.
  87. “Geopolitical Developments, Sectorial Economic Policy and Order of Priorities in China,” in: The People’s Republic of China: New Horizons for Trade (Tel Aviv: the Israel Management Center, 1985), pp. 14-26, in Hebrew.
  88. “A Management Revolution in China,” Nihul [Management] (January 1985), pp. 13-14, in Hebrew.
  89. “The Role of Islam in China’s Middle Eastern Policy,” in: R. Israeli and A.H. Johns (Eds.), Islam in Asia, Vol. II, Southeast and East Asia (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1984), pp. 305-317.
  90. “China between Israel and the Arabs,” in: Benyamin Neuberger (Ed.), Diplomacy and Confrontation: Selected Issues in Israel’s Foreign Relations, 1948-1978 (Tel Aviv: Open University, 1984), pp. 496-527, in Hebrew.
  91. “The Middle East,” in: Gerald Segal and William T. Tow (Eds.), Chinese Defence Policy (London: Macmillan, 1984), pp. 263-278.
  92. “Military Modernization and China’s Defence Capability: A Middle Eastern Perspective,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey], No. 6 (June 1984), pp. 29-36, in Hebrew.
  93. “China,” “Zhao Ziyang,” “Deng Xiaoping,” “Hua Guofeng,” “Hu Yaobbang,” Encyclopaedia Hebraïca, Supplementary Vol. II (1983), pp. 323, 399-400, 423, 424, 875-883, in Hebrew.
  94. “Review Article of Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes 1945-1947,” The Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1982-1983), pp. 104-108.
  95. “In Search of Alternatives: China’s Middle East Policy after Sadat,” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 8 (July 1982), pp. 101-110.
  96. “Early Chinese Attitudes towards the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Asian and African Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3 (November 1981), pp. 343-361.
  97. “China’s Political Developments - Origins and Significance,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey], No. 1 (January 1981), pp. 20-28, in Hebrew.
  98. “‘Just Stand’ and ‘Just Struggle’: China and the Peace Process in the Middle East,” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 5 (January 1981), pp. 39-52.
  99. “China-Israel: Past Strains and Future Prospects,” Migvan [Diversity], No. 45 (April 1980), pp. 25-28, in Hebrew.
  100. “People’s China,” Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, Supplementary Vol. (1980), in Hebrew.
  101. “China and the Middle East,” Migvan [Diversity], No. 34 (March 1979), pp. 13- 17, in Hebrew.
  102. “China Unfolds,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey], No. 11 (November 1978), pp. 11-21, in Hebrew.
  103. “The Palestinians in China’s Foreign Policy,” in: Chün-tu Hsüeh (Ed.), Dimensions of China’s Foreign Relations (New York: Praeger, 1977), pp. 156-190. Reprinted 1979.
  104. “The Basic Assumptions and Sources of Maoism,” Digest of Socialist Thought, No. 91 (June 1977), pp. 18-31, in Hebrew.
  105. “The Basic Assumptions and Sources of Maoism,” in: S.N. Eisenstadt and Yael Azmon (Eds.), Socialism and Tradition (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1975), pp. 77-103. Also in a German Edition.
  106. “China Since 1949: History; Political and Legal System; Armed Forces; Science and Education,” Encyclopaedia Hebraïca, Vol. 25 (Tel Aviv, 1973), pp. 836- 844, 889-898, 932-935, in Hebrew.
  107. “China in the UN General Assembly Session: A First Balance Sheet,” Molad [Nativity], No. 24 (March 1972), pp. 607-616, in Hebrew.
  108. “China’s National Solidarity and Its International Mission,” Keshet [Rainbow], No. 5 (1972), pp. 72-81, in Hebrew.
  109. “The Long March to Membership in the United Nations,” Ot [Letter], No. 28 (November 1971), pp. 7-9, in Hebrew.
  110. “China’s ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’ – its Causes, Directions and Implications,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey], No. 7 (July 1971), pp. 22-31, in Hebrew.
  111. “The Role of the Middle East in China’s Policy,” Skira Hodshit [Monthly Survey], No. 4 (April 1969), pp. 15-29, in Hebrew.