From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History

Course Lecture Titles 1. Geography and Archaeology 2. The First Dynasties 3. The Zhou Conquest 4. Fragmentation and Social Change 5. Confucianism and Daoism 6. The Hundred Schools 7. The Early Han Dynasty 8. Later Han and the Three Kingdoms 9. Buddhism 10. Northern and Southern Dynasties 11. Sui Reunification and the Rise of the Tang 12. The Early Tang Dynasty 13. Han Yu and the Late Tang 14. Five Dynasties and the Song Founding 15. Intellectual Ferment in the 11th Century 16. Art and the Way 17. Conquest States in the North 18. Economy and Society in Southern Song 19. Zhu Xi and Neo-Confucianism 20. The Rise of the Mongols 21. The Yuan Dynasty 22. The Rise of the Ming 23. The Ming Golden Age 24. Gridlock and Crisis 25. The Rise of the Manchus 26. Kangxi to Qianlong 27. The Coming of the West 28. Threats from Within and Without 29. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 30. Efforts at Reform 31. The Fall of the Empire 32. The New Culture Movement and May 4th 33. The Chinese Communists, 1921-1937 34. War and Revolution 35. China Under Mao 36. China and the World in a New Century