TTC课程：从尧到毛：中国五千年史(From Yao to Mao:5000 Years of Chin
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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 m
ysteries 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
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.
