Yuri Pines

E-Papers

Website E-papers: topical division

Books to download | Traditional Chinese political thought: Broad topics | Studies of specific thinkers and texts | Traditional Chinese political culture | Early Chinese historiography | Qin history | Cultural and ethnic identities in early China | Early Chinese religion | Aspects of pre-imperial Chinese history | Studies of unearthed manuscripts | Dating of early Chinese texts | Other studies | My reviews

1. Books to download
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   • Yuri Pines, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach and Robin D.S. Yates, eds., Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited. (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
   • Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Era. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.
   • Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
2. Traditional Chinese political thought: Broad topics
   1. General overviews
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      • “Political Thought.” In: Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History. Ed. Paul R. Goldin, 286-305. London: Routledge, 2018.
   2. All-under-Heaven and the concept of unity
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      • “‘The One that pervades All’ in Ancient Chinese Political Thought: Origins of ‘The Great Unity’ Paradigm.” T’oung Pao 86.4-5 (2000): 280-324.
      • “Changing Views of tianxia in Pre-imperial Discourse.” Oriens Extremus 43.1/2 (2002): 101-16.
      • Juan Carlos Moreno García and Yuri Pines, “Maat and Tianxia: Building world orders in ancient Egypt and China.” Journal of Egyptian History 13 (2020): 227-270. 
      • “Limits of All-under-Heaven: Ideology and Praxis of ‘Great Unity’ in Early Chinese Empire.” In: The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared, ed. Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, and Jörg Rüpke, 79-110. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. [  New 2023]
      • 中国古代政治思想中的“一贯”：“大一统”理想的起源  (translation of my “‘The One that Pervades All’ in Ancient Chinese Political Thought: Origins of ‘The Great Unity’ Paradigm”), trans. Chen Long 陈龙. Guoxue xuekan 国学学刊  2022.1: 126-135 and 2022.2: 123-136. [  New 2023]
   3. Rulers and ministers
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      • “Friends or Foes: Changing Concepts of Ruler-Minister Relations and the Notion of Loyalty in Pre-Imperial China.” Monumenta Serica 50 (2002): 35-74.
      • “Disputers of Abdication: Zhanguo Egalitarianism and the Sovereign’s Power.” T’oung Pao 91.4-5 (2005): 243-300.
      • “Subversion Unearthed: Criticism of Hereditary Succession in the Newly Discovered Manuscripts.” Oriens Extremus 45 (2005-2006): 159-178.
      • “To Rebel is Justified? The Image of Zhouxin and Legitimacy of Rebellion in Chinese Political Tradition.” Oriens Extremus 47 (2008): 1-24.
      • “¿Un sello omnipotente? Planteamientos sobre el gobierno del monarca en la China Preimperial” (“The omnipotent rubberstamp? Views of the monarch’s rule in pre-imperial China” [in Spanish]), trans. by Alicia Relinque Eleta, in: Alicia Relinque Eleta, ed., La construccion del poder en la China antigua. Granada: EUG, 2009, 55-84.
      • 禪讓:戰國時期關於平等主義與君主權力的論爭 (Abdication: Debates about egalitarianism and monarchism in the Warring States period, translated by Lin Hu) 《當代西方漢學研究集萃·中國上古史卷》 (Collection of Studies by Current Western Sinologists: Volume of Early Chinese History), ed. Chen Zhi 陳致, 350-395. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2011.
      • “From Teachers to Subjects: Ministers Speaking to the Rulers from Yan Ying 晏嬰 to Li Si 李斯.” In: Facing the Monarch: Modes of Advice in the Early Chinese Court, ed. Garret Olberding, 69-99. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center 2013.
      • “Submerged by Absolute Power: The Ruler’s Predicament in the Han Feizi.” In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 67-86. Dordrecht: Springer 2013.
      • “Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China.” In: The Scaffold of Sovereignty:  Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept. Ed. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr, 80-101. New York: Columbia University Press 2017.
      • “A Toiling Monarch? The ‘Wu yi’ 無逸 Chapter revisited.” In: Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy: Studies in the Composition and Thought of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), ed. Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer, 360-392. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
      • “Post-imperial Emperors? Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Afterlife,” in: Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change: Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology: In Memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, ed. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Adam Klin-Oron and Ilana Friedrich Silber, 94-128. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, 2017.
      • “China’s Imperial Institution.” In: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press. Article published August 2019.
   4. Historical outlook and the genesis of the state
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      • Yuri Pines and Gideon Shelach, “‘Using the Past to Serve the Present’: Comparative Perspectives on Chinese and Western Theories of the Origins of the State,” in: Shaul Shaked, ed., Genesis and Regeneration: Essays on Conceptions of Origins. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, 2005: 127-163.
      • “From Historical Evolution to the End of History: Past, Present and Future from Shang Yang to the First Emperor.” In: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 25-45. Dordrecht: Springer 2013.
      • “Confucian Legendary Past,” In  The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism, ed. Jennifer L. Oldstone-Moore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 53-69. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. [  New 2023]
   5. Society, social mobility, meritocracy
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      • “Disputers of the Li: Breakthroughs in the Concept of Ritual in Preimperial China.” Asia Major Third Series, 13.1 (2000): 1-41.
      • “Between Merit and Pedigree: Evolution of the Concept of ‘Elevating the Worthy’ in pre-imperial China.” In: The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective, ed. Daniel Bell and Li Chenyang, 161-202. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
   6. Chinese political thought as an academic discipline
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      • Review of Jiang Qing, A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape its Political Future, China Review International 19.4 (2012): 608-614.
      • “Liu Zehua and Studies of China’s Monarchism,” in Contemporary Chinese Thought 2-3 (2013-2014): 3-20.
      • 西方的政治學與中國傳統政治思想：從忽略到認可？ (Western Political Sciences and Traditional Chinese Political Thought: From Indifference toward Recognition?) Nankai xuebao (zhexue shehuikexue ban) 南開學報（哲學社會科學版）3 (2015): 6-14.
      • “Introduction: Ideology and Power in Early China.” In Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China, ed. Yuri Pines, Paul R. Goldin, and Martin Kern, 1-28. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
3. Studies of specific thinkers and texts
   1. Shang Yang
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      • “Alienating rhetoric in the Book of Lord Shang and its moderation,” Extrême–Orient, Extrême–Occident 34 (2012): 79-110.
      • “From Historical Evolution to the End of History: Past, Present and Future from Shang Yang to the First Emperor.” In: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 25-45. Dordrecht: Springer 2013.
      • “Legalism in Chinese Philosophy,” in Edward N. Zalta et al., eds., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (First published Wed Dec 10, 2014).
      • “Dating a Pre-imperial Text: A Case Study of the Book of Lord Shang,” Early China 39 (2016), 145-184.
      • “A ‘Total War’? Rethinking Military Ideology in the Book of Lord Shang,” Journal of Chinese Military History 5 (2016): 97-134.
      • 從“社會工程學”角度再論《商君書》的政治思想 (“Revisiting political thought of the Book of Lord Shang from the point of social engineering”). Guoxue xuekan 國學學刊 4 (2016): 34-45.
      • “Social Engineering in Early China: The Ideology of the Shangjunshu (Book of Lord Shang) Revisited.” Oriens Extremus 55 (2016): 1-37.
      • “The Book of Lord Shang on the Origins of the State.” In: Reading Texts on Sovereignty: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought, ed. Antonis Balasopoulos and Stella Achilleos, 9-16. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 
      •  从《商君书•徕民》看“商鞅学派”的思想变迁——兼论战国晚期秦国人口及军事变化 (Intellectual change within “Shang Yang’s school” as observed from “Attracting the People” chapter of the Book of Lord Shang: also discussing demographic and military changes in the late Warring States-period state of Qin). Jiang Huai luntan 江淮论坛 6 (2021), 5-13. 
      • “Agriculturalism and Beyond: Economic Thought of the Book of Lord Shang.” In: Between Command and Market: Economic Thought and Practice in Early China, ed. Elisa Sabattini and Christian Schwermann, 76-111. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
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   2. Han Fei
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      • “From Historical Evolution to the End of History: Past, Present and Future from Shang Yang to the First Emperor.” In: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 25-45. Dordrecht: Springer 2013.
      • “Submerged by Absolute Power: The Ruler’s Predicament in the Han Feizi.” In Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 67-86. Dordrecht: Springer 2013.
      • “Legalism in Chinese Philosophy,” in Edward N. Zalta et al., eds., Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (First published Dec, 2014, updated Dec. 2018).
      • “Worth vs. Power: Han Fei’s ‘Objection to Positional Power’ Revisited.” Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 74  2020 (on-line version) 
      • “Han Feizi and the Earliest Exegesis of Zuo zhuan,” Monumenta Serica 70.2 (2022): 341-365  [  New 2023]
   3. Xunzi
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      • “Disputers of the Li: Breakthroughs in the Concept of Ritual in Preimperial China.” Asia Major Third Series, 13.1 (2000): 1-41.
      • “Friends or Foes: Changing Concepts of Ruler-Minister Relations and the Notion of Loyalty in Pre-Imperial China.” Monumenta Serica 50 (2002): 35-74.
      • “萬能而無所為：荀子對於王權主義的調整 [Omnipotent and inactive: Xunzi’s solution to the problems of monarchism ], Zhuzi xuekan 諸子學刊 6 (2012): 213-231.
   4. Lunyu (Analects of Confucius)
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      • “Confucius’s Elitism: The Concepts of junzi and xiaoren revisited.” In: A Concise Companion to Confucius, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 164-184. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
   5. Mengzi (Mencius)
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      • “Mencius and Early Chinese Political Thought.” In: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius, ed. Yang Xiao and Kim-chong Chong, 259-280. Dordrecht: Springer, 2023.   [  New 2023]
   6. Zuo zhuan and related topics
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      • “The Search for Stability: Late Ch’un-ch’iu Thinkers.” Asia Major (Third Series) 10 (1997): 1-47.
      • “Confucius’s Elitism: The Concepts of junzi and xiaoren revisited.” In: A Concise Companion to Confucius, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 164-184. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
      • “Historiography, thought, and intellectual development during the Springs and Autumns period.” Chapter 23 in The Oxford Handbook of Early China, ed. Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, 512-527.
      • “De in the Zuozhuan,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 48 (2021): 130-142.
      • “Han Feizi and the Earliest Exegesis of Zuo zhuan,” Monumenta Serica 70.2 (2022): 341-365  [  New 2023] 
      • Yuri Pines, Martin Kern, and Nino Luraghi. “Introduction: Zuozhuan and the Beginnings of Chinese Historiography.” In: Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography, ed. Yuri Pines, Martin Kern, and Nino Luraghi, 1-20. [  New 2023] 
   7. Zhanguo ce
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      •  “Irony, political philosophy, and historiography: Cai Ze’s anecdote in Zhanguo ce revisited.” Studia Orientalia Slovaca  17.2 (2018): 87-113.
4. Traditional Chinese political culture
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   • “Name or Substance? Between zhengtong 正統 and yitong 一統.” History: Theory and Criticism 2 (2001): 105-138.
   • “A Hero Terrorist: Adoration of Jing Ke Revisited,” Asia Major (Third Series) 21.2 (2008): 1-34.
   • 西方的政治學與中國傳統政治思想：從忽略到認可？ (Western Political Sciences and Traditional Chinese Political Thought: From Indifference toward Recognition?) Nankai xuebao (zhexue shehuikexue ban) 南開學報（哲學社會科學版）3 (2015): 6-14.
   • “Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China.” In: The Scaffold of Sovereignty:  Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept. Ed. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr, 80-101. New York: Columbia University Press 2017.
   • “China’s Imperial Institution.” In: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press. Article published August 2019.
   • “‘To die for the Sanctity of the Name’: Name (ming 名) as prime-mover of political action in early China.” In: Keywords in Chinese Culture, eds. Li Wai-yee and Yuri Pines, 169-218. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2020.
   • “Ancient China and India: The Story of IR Fiasco?” (Review of Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China). China Review 23.3 (August 2023): 271–297.  [  New 2023]
5. Traditional Chinese political culture and its modern impact
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   • “Post-imperial Emperors? Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Afterlife,” in: Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change: Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology: In Memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, ed. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Adam Klin-Oron and Ilana Friedrich Silber, 94-128. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, 2017.
6. Early Chinese historiography
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   • “מדיווחים לאלים למניפולציות אידיאולוגיות — התפתחות הכתיבה ההיסטורית בסין הטרום-קיסרית“, היסטוריה תשנ”ט 7-35
   • “Speeches and the Question of Authenticity in Ancient Chinese Historical Records,” in Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Achim Mittag and Jörn Rüsen, eds., Historical Truth, Historical Criticism and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture from a New Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, 2005: 195-224.
   • “History as a Guide to the Netherworld: Rethinking the Chunqiu shiyu.” Journal of Chinese Religions 31 (2003): 101-126.
   • “Biases and their Sources: Qin history in the Shiji,” Oriens Extremus 45 (2005-2006), 10-34.
   • “Imagining the Empire? Concepts of ‘Primeval Unity’ in Pre-imperial Historiographic Tradition,” in: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and Achim Mittag, eds., Conceiving the Empire: China and Rome Compared. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008: 67-90.
   • “Diguo de shexiang? Xian Qin shixue chuantong zhong ‘yuanshi tongyi’ de gainian” 帝国的设想？——先秦史学传统中“原始统一”的概念  (“Imagining the Empire? Concepts of ‘Primeval Unity’ in Pre-imperial Historiographic Tradition”). In: Wenti, tuxiang, jiyi 文体·图像·记忆, ed. Zhu Yuanqing 朱淵清 and Wang Tao 汪濤, 87-107. Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue chubanshe, 2015.
   • “Chinese history-writing between the sacred and the secular.” In Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD), ed. John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, Volume 1: 315-340. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
   • “Rethinking the Origins of Chinese Historiography: The Zuo Zhuan Revisited” (Review Article), Journal of Chinese Studies 49 (2009): 431-444.
   • “Reassessing Textual Sources for Pre-Imperial Qin History,” in Sergej Dmitriev and Maxim Korolkov, eds., Sinologi Mira k iubileiu Stanislava Kuczery: Sobranie Trudov. (Uchenye Zapiski Otdela Kitaja 11). Moscow: Institut Vostokovedeniia RAN, 2013, 236-263.
   • “Zhou History and Historiography: Introducing the Bamboo Manuscript Xinian,” T’oung Pao 100.4-5 (2014): 287-324.
   • 從《繫年》虛詞的用法論其文本的可靠性——兼初探《繫年》原始資料的來源 [“Analysis of Xinian’s reliability based on its usage of grammatical particles, including a preliminary discussion of its source materials,” in Chinese]. In: Qinghua jian Xinian yu gushi xintan 清華簡《繫年》與古史新探, ed. Li Shoukui 李守奎, 215-233. Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, 2016.
   • “History without Anecdotes: Between the Zuozhuan and the Xinian Manuscript.” In: Between Philosophy and History: Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes in Early China, ed. Paul van Els and Sarah Queen, 263-299. Albany: State University of New York Press 2017.
   • Chen Minzhen and Yuri Pines, “Where is King Ping? The History and Historiography of the Zhou Dynasty’s Eastward Relocation.” Asia Major (Third Series) 31.1 (2018): 1-27.
   • “The Earliest ‘Great Wall’? Long Wall of Qi Revisited.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.4 (2018): 743-762.
   • “Chu Identity as Seen from Its Manuscripts: A Reevaluation.” Journal of Chinese History 2.1 (2018): 1-26.
   • “‘To die for the Sanctity of the Name’: Name (ming 名) as prime-mover of political action in early China.” In: Keywords in Chinese Culture, eds. Li Wai-yee and Yuri Pines, 169-218. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2020. 
   • “Historiography, thought, and intellectual development during the Springs and Autumns period.” Chapter 23 in The Oxford Handbook of Early China, ed. Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, 512-527. 
   • “Names and Titles in Eastern Zhou Texts,” T’oung Pao 106.3 (2020): 228-234 (714-720).
   • “Han Feizi and the Earliest Exegesis of Zuo zhuan,” Monumenta Serica 70.2 (2022): 341-365  [  New 2023]
   • “היסטוריוגרפיה סינית קדומה בין תיעוד העבר לחינוך מוסרי ” (Early Chinese historiography between documentation of the past and moral didacticism) (Hebrew). Historia 50 (2023): 37-67. [ New 2023]
   • Yuri Pines and Alexander Yakobson”מבוא: היסטוריוגרפיה קדומה במבט ההשוואתי”  (Introduction: Early historiography from a comparative perspective) (Hebrew). Historia 50 (2023): 5-10. [ New 2023]
   • Yuri Pines, Martin Kern, and Nino Luraghi. “Introduction: Zuozhuan and the Beginnings of Chinese Historiography.” In: Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography, ed. Yuri Pines, Martin Kern, and Nino Luraghi, 1-20. [  New 2023] 
7. Qin history
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   • “The Question of Interpretation: Qin History in Light of New Epigraphic Sources.” Early China 29 (2004): 1-44.
   • “Biases and their Sources: Qin history in the Shiji,” Oriens Extremus 45 (2005-2006), 10-34.
   • Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines, “Secondary State Formation and the Development of Local Identity: Change and Continuity in the State of Qin (770-221 BC)”, in Miriam Stark, ed., An Archaeology of Asia. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2006: 202-230.
   • “Reassessing Textual Sources for Pre-Imperial Qin History,” in Sergej Dmitriev and Maxim Korolkov, eds., Sinologi Mira k iubileiu Stanislava Kuczery: Sobranie Trudov. (Uchenye Zapiski Otdela Kitaja 11). Moscow: Institut Vostokovedeniia RAN, 2013, 236-263.
   • Yuri Pines, with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach and Robin D.S. Yates, “General Introduction: Qin History Revisited.” In: Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited, ed. Yuri Pines, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach and Robin D.S. Yates, 1-36. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
   • “Introduction to Part III: The First Emperor and his Image.” In: Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited, ed. Yuri Pines, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach and Robin D.S. Yates, 227-238. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
   • “The Messianic Emperor: A New Look at Qin’s Place in China’s History.” In: Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited, ed. Yuri Pines, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach and Robin D.S. Yates, 258-279. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
   • 有“救世主”特色的秦始皇——兼论秦朝在中国历史上的地位 (“The Messianic Emperor: A New Look at Qin’s Place in China’s History”). In: Fansi zhong de sixiang shijie: Liu Zehua xiansheng 80 shouchen jinian wenji 反思中的思想世界——刘泽华先生80寿辰纪念文集, ed. Ge Quan 葛荃 et al., 167-184. Tianjin: Tianjin renmin chubanshe, 2014.
   • “Another Life of the First Emperor: A Story of Scholarly Biases.” Review article, reviewing Anthony J. Barbieri-Low’s, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Journal of the American Oriental Society 143.3 (2023): 687–95.  [  New 2023]
8. Cultural and ethnic identities in early China
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   • “The Question of Interpretation: Qin History in Light of New Epigraphic Sources.” Early China 29 (2004): 1-44.
   • “Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of Sino-Barbarian Dichotomy,” in Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds., Mongols, Turks and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: Brill, 2005: 59-102.
   • Gideon Shelach and Yuri Pines, “Secondary State Formation and the Development of Local Identity: Change and Continuity in the State of Qin (770-221 BC)”, in Miriam Stark, ed., An Archaeology of Asia. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2006: 202-230.
   • “Where had the barbarians gone? The Cultural Other in early Chinese historiography,” in: Andreas Heil, Matthias Korn and Jochen Sauer, eds., Noctes Sinenses. Festschrift für Fritz-Heiner Mutschler zum 65. Geburtstag. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011, 235-240.
   • “Chu Identity as Seen from Its Manuscripts: A Reevaluation.” Journal of Chinese History 2.1 (2018): 1-26.
   • “[Nationhood and Nationalism in] Ancient China.” In: The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism, Ed. Cathie Carmichael, Matthew D’Auria, and Aviel Roshwald, 76-95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [  New 2023]
9. Early Chinese religion
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   • “History as a Guide to the Netherworld: Rethinking the Chunqiu shiyu.” Journal of Chinese Religions 31 (2003): 101-126.
   • קנאות דתית או מחויבות רעיונית? הרהורים על מוֹ-דְזְה” פורסם בקנאות דתית, בעריכת אורה לימור ומאיר ליטבק, מרכז שזר, ירושלים
   • “Chinese history-writing between the sacred and the secular.” In Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD), ed. John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski, Volume 1: 315-340. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
10. Aspects of pre-imperial Chinese history
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    • “The Question of Interpretation: Qin History in Light of New Epigraphic Sources.” Early China 29 (2004): 1-44.
    • “מדינת לאום, גלובליזציה וקיסרות מאוחדת: הניסיון הסיני (מאות חמישית-שלישית לפנה”ס)” (Nation-State, Globalization and the Unified Empire: The Chinese Experience [fifth-third centuries BCE]) (in Hebrew). Historia (Jerusalem) 15 (March 2005): 17-72.
    • “Bodies, Lineages, Citizens, and Regions: A Review of Mark Edward Lewis’ The Construction of Space in Early China.” Early China 30 (2005): 155-188.
    • Chen Minzhen and Yuri Pines, “Where is King Ping? The History and Historiography of the Zhou Dynasty’s Eastward Relocation.” Asia Major (Third Series) 31.1 (2018): 1-27.
    • “The Earliest ‘Great Wall’? Long Wall of Qi Revisited.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.4 (2018): 743-762.
    • “Historical background during the Springs and Autumns period.” Chapter 22 in The Oxford Handbook of Early China, ed. Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, 495-511. 
    • “The Warring States Period: Historical Background.” Chapter 25 in The Oxford Handbook of Early China, ed. Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, 581-594. 
11. Studies of unearthed manuscripts
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    • “Friends or Foes: Changing Concepts of Ruler-Minister Relations and the Notion of Loyalty in Pre-Imperial China.” Monumenta Serica 50 (2002): 35-74.
    • “History as a Guide to the Netherworld: Rethinking the Chunqiu shiyu.” Journal of Chinese Religions 31 (2003): 101-126.
    • “The Question of Interpretation: Qin History in Light of New Epigraphic Sources.” Early China 29 (2004): 1-44.
    • “Disputers of Abdication: Zhanguo Egalitarianism and the Sovereign’s Power.” T’oung Pao 91.4-5 (2005): 243-300.
    • “Subversion Unearthed: Criticism of Hereditary Succession in the Newly Discovered Manuscripts.” Oriens Extremus 45 (2005-2006): 159-178.
    • “Confucian Irony? ‘King Wu’s Enthronement’ Reconsidered,” in Raoul D. Findeisen et al, eds., At Home in Many Worlds Reading, Writing and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures Essays in Honour of Irene Eber (“Veroeffentlichungen des Ostasien-Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum” Series). Wiesbaden: Harrassowtiz, 2009, 55-68
    • “Political Mythology and Dynastic Legitimacy in the Rong Cheng shi manuscript,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, 73.3 (2010), 503-529.
    • “Zhou History and Historiography: Introducing the Bamboo Manuscript Xinian,” T’oung Pao 100.4-5 (2014): 287-324.
    • 從《繫年》虛詞的用法論其文本的可靠性——兼初探《繫年》原始資料的來源 [“Analysis of Xinian’s reliability based on its usage of grammatical particles, including a preliminary discussion of its source materials,” in Chinese]. In: Qinghua jian Xinian yu gushi xintan 清華簡《繫年》與古史新探, ed. Li Shoukui 李守奎, 215-233. Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju, 2016.
    • “History without Anecdotes: Between the Zuozhuan and the Xinian Manuscript.” In: Between Philosophy and History: Rhetorical Uses of Anecdotes in Early China, ed. Paul van Els and Sarah Queen, 263-299. Albany: State University of New York Press 2017.
    • Chen Minzhen and Yuri Pines, “Where is King Ping? The History and Historiography of the Zhou Dynasty’s Eastward Relocation.” Asia Major (Third Series) 31.1 (2018): 1-27.
    • “The Earliest ‘Great Wall’? Long Wall of Qi Revisited.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.4 (2018): 743-762.
    • “Chu Identity as Seen from Its Manuscripts: A Reevaluation.” Journal of Chinese History 2.1 (2018): 1-26. 
    • “Didactic Narrative and the Art of Self-Strengthening: Reading the Bamboo Manuscript Yue gong qi shi 越公其事.” Early China 45 (2022): 375-412. [* New 2023]
12. Dating of early Chinese texts
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    • “Lexical Changes in Zhanguo Texts.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 122.4 (2002): 691-705.
    • “Dating a Pre-imperial Text: A Case Study of the Book of Lord Shang,” Early China 39 (2016), 145-184.
13. Other studies
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    • “The Search for Stability: Late Ch’un-ch’iu Thinkers.” Asia Major (Third Series) 10 (1997): 1-47.
    • “A Hero Terrorist: Adoration of Jing Ke Revisited,” Asia Major (Third Series) 21.2 (2008): 1-34.
    • “Confucian Irony? ‘King Wu’s Enthronement’ Reconsidered,” in Raoul D. Findeisen et al, eds., At Home in Many Worlds Reading, Writing and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures Essays in Honour of Irene Eber (“Veroeffentlichungen des Ostasien-Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum” Series). Wiesbaden: Harrassowtiz, 2009, 55-68.
    • “Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China.” In: The Scaffold of Sovereignty:  Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept. Ed. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr, 80-101. New York: Columbia University Press 2017.
    • “The Earliest ‘Great Wall’? Long Wall of Qi Revisited.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.4 (2018): 743-762.
    • Yuri Pines, with Michal Biran, and Jörg Rüpke, “Introduction: Empires and their Space.” In: The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared, ed. Yuri Pines, Michal Biran, Jörg Rüpke, 1-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. [ New 2023]
14. My reviews
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    • Review of James D. Sellman, Timing and Rulership in Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi chunqiu), Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 24 (2002), 199-204.
    • Review of Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Reviews in History (2003)
    • “Bodies, Lineages, Citizens, and Regions: A Review of Mark Edward Lewis’ The Construction of Space in Early China.” Early China 30 (2005): 155-188.
    • Review of Dan Daor and Yoav Ariel, ספר הדאו (Hebrew), Haaretz, Books Supplement, 28.6.2007
    • “Rethinking the Origins of Chinese Historiography: The Zuo Zhuan Revisited” (Review Article), Journal of Chinese Studies 49 (2009): 431-444.
    • Review of Li Feng, Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BC., Early China 33 (2010-2011), 275-279
    • Review of John A. Rapp, Daoism and Anarchism: Critique of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China, China Review International 19.3 (2012): 381-386 and 397-399
    • Review of Jiang Qing, A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape its Political Future, China Review International 19.4 (2012): 608-614.
    • Review of Martin Kern, The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation. Rao Zongyi guoxueyuan yuankan 饒宗頤國學院院刊 (Bulletin of Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology) 1 (2013): 435-443.
    • Review of Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World (in Hebrew). Haaretz, Books Supplement, 23.1.2015, pp. 1-2.
    • Review of Sarah Allan, Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts. Journal of Asian History 50.1 (2016): 167-171.
    • Review of Zhao Dingxin, The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History. Early China 39 (2016), 311-320.
    • Review of Eirik Lang Harris, The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation. Journal of Chinese Religions 45.2 (2017): 204-206.
    • Review of The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan, Translated and annotated by Olivia Milburn. Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018): 148-150.
    • Review of Wu Xiaolong, Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China. Journal of Asian Studies 77.3 (2018): 791-792.
    • Review of Martin Kern, The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Imperial Representation. [in Chinese: 評柯馬丁《秦始皇石刻 —早期中國的文本與 儀式》]. 饒宗頤國學院院刊增刊 (Supplement to the Bulletin of Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology) (Sept. 2018):  265-276.
    • Review of Su Li, The Constitution of Ancient China. Journal of Chinese History 3.2 (2019): 430-437.
    • Review of Uffe Bergeton, The Emergence of Civilizational Consciousness in Early China: History Word by Word. T’oung Pao 105 (2019): 498-504.
    • Review of Youngmin Kim, A History of Chinese Political Thought. History of Political Thought 41.3 (2020): 513-516.
    • Review of Luke Habberstad, Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles. Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.3 (2020): 720-722. 
    • Review of Lu Jia’s New Discourses. A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty, trans. by Paul R. Goldin and Elisa Levi Sabattini. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 116.1 (2021): 76–79.
    • Review of Yang Bo 楊博, Zhanguo Chu zhushu shixue jiazhi tanyan 戰國楚竹書史學價值探研 (Studies on the Historiographic Value of the Warring States-period Bamboo Manuscripts from Chu). Bamboo and Silk 5.1 (2022): 159-176.  
    • Review of Tao Jiang, Origins of Political-Moral Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom. Journal of Asian Studies 81.3 (2022): 577-578.
    • Review of Maxim Korolkov, The Imperial Network in Ancient China: The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia. Journal of Chinese Studies 76 (2023): 221-228. [ New 2023]
    • “Tao Jiang on the Fa Tradition 法家.” Part of the multi-authored review of Tao Jiang, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom. Philosophy East and West 73.2 (2023), 449-458. [ New 2023]
    • “Ancient China and India: The Story of IR Fiasco?” (Review of Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China). China Review 23.3 (August 2023): 271–297.  [  New 2023]
    • “Another Life of the First Emperor: A Story of Scholarly Biases.” Review article, reviewing Anthony J. Barbieri-Low’s, The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Journal of the American Oriental Society 143.3 (2023): 687–95.  [  New 2023]