Chinese Studies: Video Lectures with Harvard Faculty

From http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative/china-history

China: Traditions and Transformations

Modern China presents a dual image: a society transforming itself through economic development and social revolution; and the world’s largest and oldest bureaucratic state, coping with longstanding problems of economic and political management.

Both images bear the indelible imprint of China’s historical experience, of its patterns of philosophy and religion, and of its social and political thought.

In this free Chinese studies online course, these themes are discussed to understand China in the modern world and as a great world civilization that developed along lines different from those of the Mediterranean.

Watch the lectures from this course on video at http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative/china-history