The fall and rise of China

The fall and rise of China

Richard Baum, 1940-2012

DVD - 2010

48 lectures detailing the history of China from the 7th cnetury to the present.

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Subjects
China > History.
China > Civilization.
Published
Chantilly, Va. : The Teaching Company [2010]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Teaching Company
Main Author
Richard Baum, 1940-2012 (-)
Corporate Author
Teaching Company (-)
Item Description
"Course number 8370."
48 lectures, approximately 30 min. each, 6 lectures per DVD.
Physical Description
8 videodiscs (1,440 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (224 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
ISBN
9781598036411
  • Part 1 : disc 1. The splendor that was China, 600-1700
  • Malthus and Manchu hubris, 1730-1800
  • Barbarians at the gate, 1800-1860
  • Rural misery and rebellion, 1842-1860
  • The self-strengthening movement, 1860-1890
  • Hundred days of reform and the boxer uprising
  • disc 2. The end of empire, 1900-1911
  • The failed republic, 1912-1919
  • The birth of Chinese communism, 1917-1925
  • Chiang, Mao, and civil war, 1926-1934
  • The republican experiment, 1927-1937
  • "Resist Japan!" 1937-1945
  • Part 2 : disc 3. Chiang's last stand, 1945-1949
  • "The Chinese people have stood up!"
  • Korea, Taiwan, and the Cold War, 1950-1954
  • Socialist transformation, 1953-1957
  • Cracks in the monolith, 1957-1958
  • The great leap forward, 1958-1960
  • disc 4. Demise of the great leap forward, 1959-1962
  • "Never forget class struggle!" 1962-1965
  • "Long live Chairman Mao!" 1964-1965
  • Mao's last revolution begins, 1965-1966
  • The children's crusade, 1966-1967
  • The storm subsides, 1968-1969
  • Part 3 : disc 5. The Sino-Soviet war of nerves, 1964-1969
  • Nixon, Kissinger, and China, 1969-1972
  • Mao's deterioration and death, 1971-1976
  • The legacy of Mao Zedong-- an appraisal
  • The post-Mao interregnum, 1976-1977
  • Hua Guofeng and the four modernizations
  • disc 6. Deng takes command, 1978-1979
  • The historic Third Plenum, 1978
  • The "normalization" of U.S.-China relations
  • Deng consolidates his power, 1979-1980
  • Socialist democracy and the rule of law
  • Burying Mao, 1981-1983
  • Part 4 : disc 7. "To get rich is glorious," 1982-1986
  • The fault lines of reform, 1984-1987
  • The road to Tiananmen, 1987-1989
  • The empire strikes back, 1989
  • After the deluge, 1989-1992
  • The "Roaring Nineties," 1992-1999
  • disc 8. The rise of Chinese nationalism, 1993-2001
  • China's lost territories-- Taiwan, Hong Kong
  • China in the new millennium, 2000-2008
  • China's information revolution
  • "One world, one dream"-- the 2008 Olympics
  • China's rise-- the sleeping giant stirs.

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