From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Audiobook) | Date: 14 April 2011, 02:43
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In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets and mysteries of ages past, its history and intentions veiled from most Westerners.
Yet behind that veil lies one of the most amazing civilizations the world has ever known.
For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China has been in order to anticipate its future. This course answers this need by delivering a comprehensive political and historical overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in world history.
[b]A Civilization so Advanced …[/b]
[list][*]China had a theory of social contract, the "Mandate of Heaven," in place by 1500 B.C.E., 3,000 years before Western philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
[*]It had seen the rule of three classical dynasties before 200 B.C.E.
[*]It developed agriculture and writing independently of outside influence.
[*]In Confucius and Laozi—among others—it had philosophers of the Axial Age as influential as were Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle in ancient Greece.
[*]While the Roman Empire was at its zenith, China’s Han dynasty ruled over an empire superior in almost every measurable way, including technological advancement.
[/list][b]… Its Wonders Were Thought to Be Lies[/b]
The veil that hides China’s extraordinary past from many of us today is far from a new one. When Marco Polo wrote of the wonders he had seen over his 20 years in China, most of his fellow Venetians could not accept his descriptions of a civilization that rivaled their own. They contemptuously referred to the book he wrote about his adventures as “The Millions”—the number of lies they believed marched across its pages. Those Venetians had chosen to turn away from a precious opportunity to glimpse China’s wonders and better understand the world.
Every lecture of From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History may seem like a journey across a virgin landscape, for the ground it covers has been largely unexplored in the history courses most of us in the West have taken.
[b]You learn about:[/b]
[list][*]The powerful dynasties that ruled China for centuries
[*]The philosophical and religious foundations—particularly Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—that have influenced every iteration of Chinese thought
[*]The larger-than-life personalities, from both inside and outside its borders, of those who have shaped China’s history.
[*]As you listen to these lectures, you see how China’s politics, economics, and art reflect the forces of its past.
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[list][*]1. Geography and Archaeology
[*]2. The First Dynasties
[*]3. The Zhou Conquest
[*]4. Fragmentation and Social Change
[*]5. Confucianism and Daoism
[*]6. The Hundred Schools
[*]7. The Early Han Dynasty
[*]8. Later Han and the Three Kingdoms
[*]9. Buddhism
[*]10. Northern and Southern Dynasties
[*]11. Sui Reunification and the Rise of the Tang
[*]12. The Early Tang Dynasty
[*]13. Han Yu and the Late Tang
[*]14. Five Dynasties and the Song Founding
[*]15. Intellectual Ferment in the 11th Century
[*]16. Art and the Way
[*]17. Conquest States in the North
[*]18. Economy and Society in Southern Song
[*]19. Zhu Xi and Neo-Confucianism
[*]20. The Rise of the Mongols
[*]21. The Yuan Dynasty
[*]22. The Rise of the Ming
[*]23. The Ming Golden Age
[*]24. Gridlock and Crisis
[*]25. The Rise of the Manchus
[*]26. Kangxi to Qianlong
[*]27. The Coming of the West
[*]28. Threats from Within and Without
[*]29. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
[*]30. Efforts at Reform
[*]31. The Fall of the Empire
[*]32. The New Culture Movement and May 4th
[*]33. The Chinese Communists, 1921–1937
[*]34. War and Revolution
[*]35. China Under Mao
[*]36. China and the World in a New Century
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