Part 4: A New National Culture

Thursday, March 20, 2014: From Early to Later Imperial China

Thursday, March 27, 2014: Transforming Society Through Government

Thursday, April 3, 2014: The Neo-Confucianism Movement

Thursday, April 10, 2014: Exams and Elites: Chinas Unity

Part 5: From Global Empire to Global Economy

Thursday, April 24, 2014: The World Empire of the Mongols

Thursday, May 1, 2014: - Social Policy and the Founding of the Ming - Admiral Zheng He Sails the Seas

Thursday, May 8, 2014: - Silver and Social Change in Late Ming - Cultural Change in Late Ming Part 6: The Manchus and the Qing

Thursday, May 22, 2014: The Qing Vision of Empire, with Professor Mark Elliott

Thursday, May 29, 2014: Hearts and Minds, with Professor Mark Elliott

Thursday, June 5, 2014: Manchu Identity and the Meanings of Minority Rule, with Professor Mark Elliott

Thursday, June 12, 2014: The Scholars

Thursday, June 19, 2014: The High Qing, with Professor Mark Elliott

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Part 1: The Political and Intellectual Foundations of China

Thursday, October 31, 2013: Time, Space, Identity: The Big Picture

Thursday, November 7, 2013: Objects and Texts: Origin Stories

Thursday, November 14, 2013: The Legitimation of Power in Antiquity

Thursday, November 21, 2013: Discussing One Interpretation of the Nature of Chinese Civilization

Thursday, December 5, 2013: Confucius and Confucianism

Thursday, December 12, 2013: Competing Schools and Warring States

Part 2: The Creation and End of a Centralized Empire

Thursday, January 2, 2014: Forging a Unified Empire: Qin

Thursday, January 9, 2014: Making Empire Last: Western Han

Thursday, January 16, 2014: State and Society in Western and Eastern Han

Thursday, January 23, 2014: Self-Realization in the Medieval World

Thursday, January 30, 2014: Buddhism

Part 3: Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture

Thursday, February 13, 2014: The Unified Empire: Cosmopolitan Tang

Thursday, February 20, 2014: Poetry

Thursday, February 27, 2014: Calligraphy

Thursday, March 6, 2014: Yingyings Story

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Part 7: Invasions, Rebellions, and the End of Imperial China

Thursday, September 4, 2014: - Myths and Lessons of Modern Chinese History - Achievement and Limits of Manchu Rule (Review)

Thursday, September 11, 2014: Opium and the Opium War

Thursday, September 18, 2014: Christianity and Chinese Salvation

Thursday, September 25, 2014: Fall of Imperial China Part 8: Creating Modern China: The Birth of a Nation

Thursday, October 9, 2014: Foreign Models for a Chinese Republic

Thursday, October 16, 2014: The Military Persuasion in Modern China

Thursday, October 23, 2014: Culture and Revolution

Thursday, October 30, 2014: Engineering China

Thursday, November 6, 2014: Against the Empire of the Sun: The USA and China

Part 9: Communist Liberations

Thursday, November 20, 2014: Rise of the Chinese Communist Party

Thursday, November 27, 2014: Socialist Elder Brother

Thursday, December 4, 2014: Fleurs du mal: Blooming & Contending in Early Communist China

Thursday, December 11, 2014: Rod MacFarquhar Lecture - Cultural Revolution

Thursday, December 18, 2014: Last Years of Mao and The Reopening of China

Part 10: Greater China Today: The People's Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

Thursday, January 8, 2015: The Political and Economic World of Post-Mao China

Thursday, January 15, 2015: Agricultural China

Thursday, January 22, 2015: Entrepreneurial China Thursday, January 29, 2015: Educational China Thursday, February 5, 2015: Environmental China

Thursday, February 12, 2015: Writing China

Thursday, February 19, 2015: A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan in the Shadow of Mainland China

Thursday, February 26, 2015: Can China Lead?

Please note, this schedule is subject to change.

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