The fall and rise of China

Pt. 1. lecture 1. The splendor that was China, 600-1700

lecture 2. Malthus and Manchu hubris, 1730-1800

lecture 3. Barbarians at the gate, 1800-1860

lecture 4. Rural misery and rebellion, 1842-1860

lecture 5. The self-strengthening movement, 1860-1890

lecture 6. Hundred days of reform and the Boxer Uprising

lecture 7. The end of empire, 1900-1911

lecture 8. The failed republic, 1912-1919

lecture 9. The birth of Chinese communism, 1917-1925

lecture 10. Chiang, Mao, and civil war, 1926-1934

lecture 11. The republican experiment, 1927-1937 lecture 12. "Resist Japan!" 1937-1945

Pt. 2. lecture 13. Chiang's last stand, 1945-1949

lecture 14. "The Chinese people have stood up!"

lecture 15. Korea, Taiwan, and the Cold War, 1950-1954

lecture 16. Socialist transformation, 1953-1957

lecture 17. Cracks in the monolith, 1957-1958

lecture 18. The great leap forward, 1958-1960

lecture 19. Demise of the great leap forward, 1959-1962

lecture 20. "Never forget class struggle!" 1962-1965

lecture 21. "Long live Chairman Mao!" 1964-1965

lecture 22. Mao's last revolution begins, 1965-1966

lecture 23. The children's crusade, 1966-1967

lecture 24. The storm subsides, 1968-1969.

Pt. 3. lecture 25. The Sino-Soviet war of nerves, 1964-1969

lecture 26. Nixon, Kissinger, and China, 1969-1972

lecture 27. Mao's deterioration and death, 1971-1976

lecture 28. The legacy of Mao Zedong an appraisal

lecture 29. The post-Mao interregnum, 1976-1977

lecture 30. Hua Guofeng and the four modernizations

lecture 31. Deng takes command, 1978-1979

lecture 32. The historic Third Plenum, 1978

lecture 33. The "normalization" of U.S.-China relations

lecture 34. Deng consolidates his power, 1979-1980

lecture 35. Socialist democracy and the rule of law

lecture 36. Burying Mao, 1981-1983.

Pt. 4. lecture 37. "To get rich is glorious," 1982-1986

lecture 38. The fault lines of reform, 1984-1987

lecture 39. The road to Tiananmen, 1987-1989

lecture 40. The empire strikes back, 1989

lecture 41. After the deluge, 1989-1992

lecture 42. The "Roaring Nineties," 1992-1999

lecture 43. The rise of Chinese nationalism, 1993-2001

lecture 44. China's lost territories Taiwan, Hong Kong

lecture 45. China in the new millennium, 2000-2008

lecture 46. China's information revolution

lecture 47. "One world, one dream" the 2008 Olympics

lecture 48. China's rise

the sleeping giant stirs.