HIST 0410: Intro to Chinese History

From Confucius to Mongol Invasion

 * From Confucius to Confucianism
 * Warring States & The 100 Schools
 * Challenges to Confucianism: Daoism
 * Legalism and the First Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
 * Buddhism & China
 * China's Golden Age: The Tang
 * "Examination Hell" - The Song Dynasty
 * Literati Culture in the Song: Books and Pictures

Second Half 1368 - Present

 * The Ming in Chinese History
 * Chinese Exploration of the World: Zheng He
 * The Ming & The Manchus
 * Chinese Women & Families
 * The Qing & European Inroads to China
 * The Taiping Rebellion
 * After the Taiping: Qing Reform
 * New Directions for 20th Century China
 * Democracy, Chaos, Communism
 * Chiang Kaishek & Mao
 * Founding the People's Republic of China
 * The People's Republic in Practice
 * Song of Everlasting Sorrow