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🐉 Chinese History

Five Millennia of Civilization

🏺 Ancient China: Foundations

Chapter 1

China in the Bronze Age: The Shang and Zhou

1500 – 771 BCE
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01
The Shang Dynasty
Oracle Bones, Bronze, and the Birth of Chinese Civilization
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The Zhou Dynasty
The Mandate of Heaven and Feudal Order
→ 03
Regional Diversity
Beyond the Central Plains: Chu, Shu, and Frontier Cultures
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The Warring States Period
Political Fragmentation and Military Revolution
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The Confucian Response
Confucius, Mencius, and the Way of Virtue
→ 03
Daoist and Legalist Alternatives
The Way of Nature and the Way of Law
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👑 Imperial China: Unification & Expansion

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The Qin Unification
First Emperor, Legalist State, and Imperial Foundations
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The Han Founding
From Rebel to Dynasty: Building the Han Order
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The Silk Road
Trade, Diplomacy, and the Han World Order
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The Three Kingdoms
Heroes, Warlords, and the Fall of Han Unity
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Chinese Identity in Question
Non-Chinese Rule and Cultural Transformation
→ 03
The Arrival of Buddhism
A Foreign Faith Transforms China
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The Sui Reunification
Grand Canal, Grand Ambitions, and Rapid Collapse
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Early Tang Power
Taizong, Wu Zetian, and the Path to Empire
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Tang Height and Decline
Golden Age, An Lushan Rebellion, and the End of Cosmopolitan Empire
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📜 Middle Period: Song through Ming

⚖️ Song dynasty lectures in development...
🐎 Mongol lectures incoming...
⛵ Zheng He hasn't delivered the content yet...

🏯 Late Imperial & Modern China

🎭 Manchu content in preparation...
🚢 Opium War lectures under embargo...
🔧 Self-strengthening lectures in progress...
⭐ Long March to completion underway...
📕 Cultural Revolution content forthcoming...
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