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Harvard University
Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.
Harvard University
Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.
Harvard University
Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.
Harvard University
Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.
Harvard University
Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.
Harvard University
Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.
Harvard University
Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.
Harvard University
Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.
Harvard University
Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.
Harvard University
An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.
Harvard University
An exploration of the dynamics of contemporary China using the tools of close reading, discussion, and analysis.
Tsinghua University
Beginners' Chinese course from China's top university.
Tsinghua University
From da Vinci to Zhang Xu, Wu Daozi and Warhol, explore immortal works of Western and Chinese art and gain an appreciation of culture, history and civilization.
Peking University
Nǐ hǎo! 你好！Welcome to Chinese for HSK Level 1 - a Chinese course for beginners. My name is YU Bin. I am very happy to meet you here! HSK stands for Hànyǔ (Chinese) Shuǐpíng (level) Kǎoshì (test), which is the most important Chinese proficiency test in use today. It assesses non-native Chinese speak…
MIT 21G.101 Chinese I (Regular), Fall 2014 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21G-101F14 Instructor: Haohsiang Liao License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21G-107F14 Instructor: Min-Min Liang This collection includes videos intended to be of use to educators interested in teaching heritage Chinese language learners. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More course…
Tsinghua University
This course explores China's rich and varied architectural history. (In Mandarin with English subtitles.) 体味中国古建筑之美，理解中国建筑的重要内涵
MIT OpenCourseWare
This subject examines the experiences of ordinary Chinese people as they lived through the tumultuous changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We look at personal narratives, primary sources, films alongside a textbook to think about how individual and family lives connect with the broade…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course, along with 21G.108 / 158 offered in the spring, form the elementary level of the streamlined sequence, which is for students who have some basic conversational skills gained, typically, from growing up in a Chinese speaking environment, but lack a corresponding level of literacy. The f…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This lecture course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the international relations of the People’s Republic of China. China’s foreign relations during the Cold War as well as contemporary diplomatic, security and economic issues will be examined to identify and explain China’s f…
