From Yao to Mao: 5000 years of Chinese history

Part 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.

Part 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.

Part 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 Taiping 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.