21H.151 | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate

# Dynastic China

## Course Description

This course surveys the history of China from the first dynasty to the year 1800. It traces the rise of the world’s first centralized bureaucratic state, the development of the world’s oldest living written culture, and the formation of the pre-modern world’s largest single commercial market. It also studies women and men as they founded dynasties, engaged in philosophy, challenged orthodoxies, and invented technologies used around the globe. Finally, the course explores China’s past to understand the country’s present, and reflects on what its stories mean for the global world.

## Course Info

### Instructor

- Prof. Tristan G. Brown

### Departments

- History

### Topics

- Humanities
  - History
    - Asian History
    - World History

## Learning Resource Types

This course includes the following types of learning materials.

Activity Assignments
Lecture Videos
Readings
Student Work
Written Assignments
Activities of Minister of War Wang Qiong (1459–1532) (1736). (Source: Wikimedia Commons. This image is in the public domain.)
Browse Resources
Browse Resources

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