I studied Chinese in China between 1993-1995. After a stint at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, where I helped coordinate economic relationships with Asian countries, I returned to full time academic studies. I graduated from University of California Berkeley in 2007, with a PhD in the History of Modern China. Since then I have been teaching at the University of Haifa. My research interests have to do with the role of intellectuals in the politics of China in the twentieth century. Work of mine in this field has appeared in Twentieth Century China and The China Quarterly  and the Chinese journal Chinese Communist Party History (in Chinese).  I am currently working on a book manuscript that attempts to explain the prominent role of intellectuals in Chinese politics after the pivotal May Fourth movement of 1919.