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History of China: Bronze Age to the Last Dynasties

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About History of China: Bronze Age to the Last Dynasties

HarvardX's History of China: Bronze Age to the Last Dynasties XSeries Program

China’s Political and Intellectual Foundations: From Sage Kings to Confucius

China’s First Empires and the Rise of Buddhism

Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture in China

Literati China: Examinations, Neo-Confucianism, and Later Imperial China

Global China: From the Mongols to the Ming

What You Will Learn?

  • China’s origins and how early concepts in Chinese culture still matter in the 21st century.
  • How the relationship to the self evolved with the spread of aristocratic culture and Buddhism.
  • Classical Chinese poetry and the ancient art of calligraphy.
  • How a shifting social and political elite ultimately brings unity to China, ushering in an age of global empire.
  • How the economic and political realities of today’s China originated in the region centuries ago.