WILLIAM KIRBY & PETER BOL

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Maecenas tempus enim eget

libero fermentum. Donec
sagittis pretium urna.
Part 1: The Political and Intellectual Foundations of China

Part 4: A New National Culture

Thursday, October 31, 2013: Time, Space, Identity: The Big

Picture

Thursday, March 20, 2014: From Early to Later

Imperial China

Thursday, November 7, 2013: Objects and Texts: Origin

Stories

Thursday, March 27, 2014: Transforming

Society Through Government

Thursday, November 14, 2013: The Legitimation of Power in

Antiquity

Thursday, April 3, 2014: The NeoConfucianism Movement

Thursday, November 21, 2013: Discussing One

Interpretation of the Nature of Chinese Civilization

Thursday, April 10, 2014: Exams and Elites:

Chinas Unity

Thursday, December 5, 2013: Confucius and Confucianism

Part 5: From Global Empire to Global

Economy

Thursday, December 12, 2013: Competing Schools and

Warring States
Part 2: The Creation and End of a Centralized Empire
Thursday, January 2, 2014: Forging a Unified Empire: Qin
Thursday, January 9, 2014: Making Empire Last: Western
Han
Thursday, January 16, 2014: State and Society in Western
and Eastern Han
Thursday, January 23, 2014: Self-Realization in the Medieval
World
Thursday, January 30, 2014: Buddhism
Part 3: Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture
Thursday, February 13, 2014: The Unified Empire:
Cosmopolitan Tang
Thursday, February 20, 2014: Poetry
Thursday, February 27, 2014: Calligraphy
Thursday, March 6, 2014: Yingyings Story

Thursday, April 24, 2014: The World Empire of

the Mongols
Thursday, May 1, 2014:
- Social Policy and the Founding of the Ming
- Admiral Zheng He Sails the Seas
Thursday, May 8, 2014:
- Silver and Social Change in Late Ming
- Cultural Change in Late Ming
Part 6: The Manchus and the Qing
Thursday, May 22, 2014: The Qing Vision of
Empire, with Professor Mark Elliott
Thursday, May 29, 2014: Hearts and Minds,
with Professor Mark Elliott
Thursday, June 5, 2014: Manchu Identity and
the Meanings of Minority Rule, with Professor
Mark Elliott
Thursday, June 12, 2014: The Scholars
Thursday, June 19, 2014: The High Qing, with
Professor Mark Elliott

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Part 7: Invasions, Rebellions, and the End of Imperial

China

Thursday, December 11, 2014: Rod MacFarquhar

Lecture - Cultural Revolution

Thursday, September 4, 2014:

- Myths and Lessons of Modern Chinese History
- Achievement and Limits of Manchu Rule (Review)

Thursday, December 18, 2014: Last Years of Mao

and The Reopening of China

Thursday, September 11, 2014: Opium and the Opium

War

Part 10: Greater China Today: The People's

Republic, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

Thursday, September 18, 2014: Christianity and

Chinese Salvation

Thursday, January 8, 2015: The Political and

Economic World of Post-Mao China

Thursday, September 25, 2014: Fall of Imperial China

Thursday, January 15, 2015: Agricultural China

Part 8: Creating Modern China: The Birth of a Nation

Thursday, January 22, 2015: Entrepreneurial China

Thursday, October 9, 2014:

Foreign Models for a Chinese Republic

Thursday, January 29, 2015: Educational China

Vivamus porta
est sed est.

Thursday, October 16, 2014: The Military Persuasion in

Modern China
Thursday, October 23, 2014: Culture and Revolution
Thursday, October 30, 2014: Engineering China

Thursday, February 5, 2015: Environmental China

Thursday, February 12, 2015: Writing China
Thursday, February 19, 2015: A Strait of
Uncertainty: Taiwan in the Shadow of Mainland
China

Thursday, November 6, 2014: Against the Empire of

the Sun: The USA and China

Thursday, February 26, 2015: Can China Lead?

Part 9: Communist Liberations

Please note, this schedule is subject to

change.

Thursday, November 20, 2014: Rise of the Chinese

Communist Party
Thursday, November 27, 2014: Socialist Elder Brother
Thursday, December 4, 2014: Fleurs du mal: Blooming
& Contending in Early Communist China

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