Meir Shahar
Meir Shahar (Hebrew: מאיר שחר, born in 1959 in Jerusalem, Israel) is a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University.
After studying at the University of Jerusalem, he studied Chinese in Taipei. He obtained a PhD in Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University in 1992.
His current research focuses on interactions between Chinese religions, the Chinese literature, and Chinese martial arts.
Books
- The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts, 2008, The University of Hawai'i Press.
- Wu Cheng'en, translation Meir Shahar, Monkey and the Magic Gourd. (Hebrew)
- Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature, Harvard University Asia Center, 1998
- The Chinese Religion ("Ha-Dat ha-Sinit"), The Broadcast University Series Press, 1998. (Hebrew)
- with Robert Weller, Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China, University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.
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