From Yao to Mao [sound recording] : 5000 years of Chinese history / [Kenneth J. Hammond].

Author:: Hammond, Kenneth James
Published:: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2004]
Copyright Date:: ℗2004
Edition:: Library ed.
Physical Description:: 18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm)
Additional Creators:: Teaching Company

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Series:

The great courses

Contents:

Pt.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 -- 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 dynasty -- Pt.2. 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 -- 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 crisis -- Pt.3. 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 Taiiping Heavenly Kingdom -- lecture 30. Efforts at reform -- 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.

Summary:

A thirty-six lecture course that explores the history and culture of China.

Subject(s):

China—History

ISBN:

1565858670

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