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TTC课程：从尧到毛：中国五千年史(From Yao to Mao:5000 Years of
Chinese History)
Professor Kenneth J. Hammond, New Mexico State
University
Ph.D.,
Harvard University
英文名：From
Yao to Mao:5000 Years of Chinese History
媒体格式：视频/音频
集数：36讲/每讲30分钟
课程类型：历史学
主讲人：（美）Professor Kenneth J. Hammond
定价：欢迎交流
COURSE OVERVIEW
36
lectures / 30 minutes per lecture
In a
world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and
exotic land, with secrets and mysteries of ages past, its history
and intentions veiled from most Westerners. Yet behind that veil
lies one of the most amazing civilizations the world has ever
known. For most of its 5,000-year existence,...
Full
Course Description
LECTURE LIST
1
Geography and Archaeology
2 The
First Dynasties
3 The
Zhou Conquest
4
Fragmentation and Social Change
5
Confucianism and Daoism
6 The
Hundred Schools
7 The
Early Han Dynasty
8 Later
Han and the Three Kingdoms
9
Buddhism
10
Northern and Southern Dynasties
11 Sui
Reunification and the Rise of the Tang
12 The
Early Tang Dynasty
13 Han
Yu and the Late Tang
14 Five
Dynasties and the Song Founding
15
Intellectual Ferment in the 11th Century
16 Art
and the Way
17
Conquest States in the North
18
Economy and Society in Southern Song
19 Zhu
Xi and Neo-Confucianism
20 The
Rise of the Mongols
21 The
Yuan Dynasty
22 The
Rise of the Ming
23 The
Ming Golden Age
24
Gridlock and Crisis
25 The
Rise of the Manchus
26
Kangxi to Qianlong
27 The
Coming of the West
28
Threats from Within and Without
29 The
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
30
Efforts at Reform
31 The
Fall of the Empire
32 The
New Culture Movement and May 4th
33 The
Chinese Communists, 1921–1937
34 War
and Revolution
35 China
Under Mao
36 China
and the World in a New Century
ABOUT
THE PROFESSOR
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Professor Kenneth J. Hammond
New
Mexico State UniversityPh.D., Harvard University
Dr.
Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History and Director of The
Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University. He earned his
B.A. from Kent State University and his graduate degrees from
Harvard University—an A.M. in East Asian Regional Studies and a
Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages.
Professor Hammond’s research focuses on the
cultural and intellectual history of China in the late imperial era
from the 10th through the 18th centuries, and especially the
history of the Ming dynasty. He has published articles and
translations on a wide range of subjects, including Chinese
gardens, and is the editor of The Human Tradition in Premodern
China, a biographical reader for undergraduate
students.
Professor Hammond received numerous grants and
fellowships, including a grant from the American Council of Learned
Societies to work with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in
Beijing, and an Affiliated Fellowship at the International
Institute for Asian Studies at Leiden, the Netherlands. Professor
Hammond is past president of the Society for Ming Studies and
served on the board of directors of the Southwest Association for
Asian Studies.
FULL
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In a
world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and
exotic land, with secrets and mysteries of ages past, its history
and intentions veiled from most Westerners. Yet behind that veil
lies one of the most amazing civilizations the world has ever
known. For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the
largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth.
And for us as Westerners, it is essential to understand where China
has been in order to anticipate its future. This course answers
this need by delivering a comprehensive political and historical
overview of one of the most fascinating and complex countries in
world history.
A
Civilization so Advanced …
- China had a theory of social contract, the "Mandate of Heaven," in place by 1500 B.C.E., 3,000 years before Western philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
- It had seen the rule of three classical dynasties before 200 B.C.E.
- It developed agriculture and writing independently of outside influence.
- In Confucius and Laozi—among others—it had philosophers of the Axial Age as influential as were Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle in ancient Greece.
- While the Roman Empire was at its zenith, China's Han dynasty ruled over an empire superior in almost every measurable way, including technological advancement.
… Its
Wonders Were Thought to Be Lies
The veil
that hides China's extraordinary past from many of us today is far
from a new one. When Marco Polo wrote of the wonders he had seen
over his 20 years in China, most of his fellow Venetians could not
accept his descriptions of a civilization that rivaled their own.
They contemptuously referred to the book he wrote about his
adventures as "The Millions”—the number of lies they believed
marched across its pages. Those Venetians had chosen to turn away
from a precious opportunity to glimpse China's wonders and better
understand the world.
Every
lecture of From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History may seem
like a journey across a virgin landscape, for the ground it covers
has been largely unexplored in the history courses most of us in
the West have taken.
You
learn about:
- The powerful dynasties that ruled China for centuries
- The philosophical and religious foundations—particularly Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—that have influenced every iteration of Chinese thought
- The larger-than-life personalities, from both inside and outside its borders, of those who have shaped China's history.
- As you listen to these lectures, you see how China's politics, economics, and art reflect the forces of its past.
Explore China's Subtleties with an
Expert
Few
nations have as long and intricate a history as China. To bring
alive the subtleties of that history in only 36 lectures requires a
teacher intimately familiar with not only his subject, but the
needs of listeners who may well be peering for the first time
beyond that curtain that has long veiled the mysteries of
China—indeed, of all Asia—from the eyes and understanding of
Westerners.
Born and
raised in Ohio, Professor Kenneth J. Hammond himself made that
intellectual and cultural journey. He has lived and worked in
Beijing and established exchange programs with schools in China and
Korea.
In
guiding you through the five millennia of China's history, he has
organized his lectures around several major themes:
- The evolution of the social and political elite and how they acquired and asserted their power as rulers
- The history of political thought and the ways the Chinese have organized their society and government from the shamanistic roots of that political thought to the crafting and adapting of the Imperial Order, the rise of Communism, and the introduction of capitalism as China seeks economic growth
- How the Chinese have thought and written about themselves and the world
- The connections between economic and social life and the worlds of art, literature, and philosophy
- The interaction among cosmological ideas, the metaphysical insights of Buddhism and religious Daoism, and the perennial mysticism of popular religion
- China's history as it relates to the world beyond its borders.
China's Story: From Night Skies Ablaze to
Opium
Dr.
Hammond's lectures are richly detailed and lead you on compelling
forays across many aspects of China's story. From a governing
perspective, you'll learn how the short-lived Qin dynasty—with
"legalism"as its often brutal ideology of governance—became the
first unified empire, laying the basis for an enduring imperial
order. And how the implementation of the imperial civil service
examination system in the late 10th century gave intellectual
issues renewed importance, and made the 11th century flourish with
great debate and discussion about literature, philosophy,
government, and art. You'll also learn the eye-opening story of how
China was betrayed by the Allies at Versailles, precipitating riots
in Beijing and helping pave the way for the emergence of the
Communist Party.
From an
historical point of reference, you'll see how a concubine named Wu
Zetian rose to become the first and only empress to rule China .
You'll also learn how opium became the commodity that allowed Great
Britain to pry open China to the avarice of the West, making
millions of Chinese into addicts, inciting the Opium Wars and a
profound humiliation for China. You'll also be fascinated by the
extraordinary story of a failed examination candidate named Hong
Xiuquan, whose certainty that he was Jesus' younger brother drove
him to lead a revolution that nearly succeeded in overthrowing the
Qing dynasty. And then examine the conquest of China by the
Mongols, including a riveting discussion of their culture and
tactics.
You'll
also explore how select artistic and intellectual events shaped
China's history. For example, learn about the great ceramic center
at Jingdezhen, which, in the 12th century, became one of the first
true industrial cities in world history, its massive production
lines setting the night sky ablaze with the glow from their great
kilns. You'll be introduced to the Neo-Confucianist teachings of
Zhu Xi, one of the great figures in Chinese intellectual history,
whose sharply divergent commentaries on classical Confucian texts
placed an emphasis on moral self-cultivation and the role of the
individual. And finally, you'll visit the golden age of the Ming
dynasty, when art and literature flourished amid economic growth
and the revival of a great merchant class, including the invention
of a postal system that became the foundation of a great trading
network.
China: A Major Player
China
continues to reassert itself as a major force. These above
samplings can only hint at the fascination of this course and the
immensity of its scope. However, the full course offers the history
of this vast nation, reminding us that China is no stranger to that
stage and, indeed, has more often than not been the most
extraordinary player on it.
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