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From Yao to Mao, 5000 years of Chinese history, Kenneth J. Hammond

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From Yao to Mao

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Kenneth J. Hammond

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5000 years of Chinese history

Few nations have as long and intricate a history as China. This 36-lecture course delivers a comprehensive political and historical overview of this fascinating and complex country

pt. 1. disc 1: lecture 1. Geography and archaeology ; lecture 2. The first dynasties ; lecture 3. The Zhou conquest ; lecture 4. Fragmentation and social change ; lecture 5. Confucianism and Daoism ; lecture 6. The hundred schools -- disc 2 : lecture 7. The early Han dynasty ; lecture 8. Later Han and the three kingdoms ; lecture 9. Buddhism ; lecture 10. Northern and southern dynasties ; lecture 11. Sui reunification and the rise of the Tang ; lecture 12. The early Tang dynastypt. 2. disc 3 : lecture 13. Han Yu and the late Tang ; lecture 14. Five dynasties and the Song founding ; lecture 15. Intellectual ferment in the 11th century ; lecture 16. Art and the way ; lecture 17. Conquest states in the North ; lecture 18. Economy and society in southern Song -- disc 4 : lecture 19. Zhu Xi and neo-Confucianism ; lecture 20. The rise of the Mongols ; lecture 21. The Yuan dynasty ; lecture 22. The rise of the Ming ; lecture 23. The Ming golden age ; lecture 24. Gridlock and crisispt. 3. disc 5 : lecture 25. The rise of the Manchus ; lecture 26. Kangxi to Qianlong ; lecture 27. The coming of the West ; lecture 28. Threats from within and without ; lecture 29. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ; lecture 30. Efforts at reform -- disc 6 : lecture 31. The fall of the empire ; lecture 32. The New Culture Movement and May 4th ; lecture 33. The Chinese Communists, 1921-1937 ; lecture 34. War and revolution ; lecture 35. China under Mao ; lecture 36. China and the world in a new century

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