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For most of its 5,000-year lifestyle, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on the planet. And for us as Westerners, it is essential to comprehend where China has been around order to foresee its future. These 36 eye-opening lectures deliver a comprehensive politics and historical summary of one of the most fascinating and intricate countries in world background. You'll find out about the powerful dynasties that ruled China for years and years; the philosophical and spiritual foundations-particularly Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism-that have affected every iteration of Chinese thought, and the larger-than-life personalities, from both outside and inside its borders, of these who have formed China's history. As you listen to these lectures, you will see how China's politics, economics, and skill reflect the forces of its recent. In the "Mandate of Heaven," a theory of social contract in place by 1500 B.C.E., 3,000 years before European philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, to the development of agriculture and writing indie of outside affect to the technologically - advanced Han Dynasty during the time of the Roman Empire, this course takes you on the journey across earth that is typically unexplored in the annals courses most of us in the Western have taken. In guiding you through the five millennia of China's background, Professor Hammond explains to a fascinating account with an huge scope, a pleasant reminder that China is no stranger to that stage and, indeed, has more often than not been the most remarkable player on it.
