The Fall and Rise of China

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Lecture duration: 30 minutes each.
"Course no. 8370"
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor Richard Baum, University of California, Los Angeles delivers 48 lectures on the history of China.
DVD ; NTSC, region 1.

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Understand China submitted by robert grierson on September 21, 2011, 8:31pm If you are intersted in the future of China as a world power,this gives a clear insight into the progress of China in the last 100 years
and an insight into the future. China/US relations will determine much of our future.
The videos are very well delivered in a factual manner by a true expert who has spent time in China for most of the last 40+ years