Great courses (Compact disc)

Title from disc label

With an astonishing 5,000 years of history, China is one of the world's great civilizations, as well as a burgeoning superpower on the world stage. For a major portion of its existence--until as recently as the early 20th century--China was an empire, one of the greatest and most powerful the world has ever known

Compact discs

24 lectures (31 min. each)

"Course no. 3822"--Container

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 256-274)

Unabridged

Grant Hardy, University of North Carolina, Ashville, lecturer

Disc 1.

1.

Opium, trade, and war in imperial China --

2.

First emperor's terra-cotta warriors --

Disc 2.

3.

China's early golden age: the Han Dynasty --

4.

Amazing ban clan: historian, soldier, woman --

Disc 3.

5.

China's Buddhist monks and Daoist recluses --

6.

Cosmopolitan Chang'an: Tang Dynasty capital --

Disc 4.

7.

China's grand canal: lifeline of an empire --

8.

Triumph and tragedy in tang poetry --

Disc 5.

9.

Life and times of song dynasty literati --

10.

A day's journey along the Qingming scroll --

Disc 6.

11.

Peasant life on the yellow river --

12.

Rice, silk, and tea: South China's peasants --

Disc 7.

13.

Genghis khan and the rise of the Mongols --

14.

Mongols and Marco Polo in Xanadu --

Disc 8.

15.

Admiral Zheng he's treasure fleet --

16.

China's bound feet, brides, and widows --

Disc 9.

17.

Ming dynasty trade and Spanish silver --

18.

Great wall and military life in China --

Disc 10.

19.

Qing dynasty: soul stealers and sedition --

20.

Emperor Qianlong hosts a British ambassador --

Disc 11.

21.

Taiping rebellion and its cult leader --

22.

China's treaty ports --

Disc 12.

23.

Experiencing China's civil service exams --

24.

China's last dynasty: fall of the Manchus