Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
LECTURE 1
The Splendor That Was China, 6001700 .........................................9
LECTURE 2
Malthus and Manchu Hubris, 17301800 .........................................12
LECTURE 3
Barbarians at the Gate, 18001860 .................................................14
LECTURE 4
Rural Misery and Rebellion, 18421860 .........................................18
LECTURE 5
The Self-Strengthening Movement, 18601890 ...............................21
LECTURE 6
Hundred Days of Reform and the Boxer Uprising ............................24
LECTURE 7
The End of Empire, 19001911 ........................................................28
LECTURE 8
The Failed Republic, 19121919......................................................31
LECTURE 9
The Birth of Chinese Communism, 19171925................................34
LECTURE 10
Chiang, Mao, and Civil War, 19261934 .........................................37
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