From Yao to Mao

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

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

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.