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 -- 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.
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 -- 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 -- lecture 23. The children's crusade, 1966-1967 -- The storm subsides, 1968-1969.
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 -- 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.
"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 -- 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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