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Kodansha History of China, Season 1: The Age of Myth and the Xia Dynasty
From myth to history
Completed · 32 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Xu Hong: Only an Archaeologist’s Trowel Can Read the Unwritten Record Before Writing Liang Wendao: How We Understand Our Country’s History Often Leaves Things Out Duan Zhiqiang: Kodansha’s History of China, a Program Complete in Every Way 0. How Should We Understand Chinese Prehistory? 1. Did the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Really Exist? 2. The Story of Archaeological Excavation in China Further Reading | The Development of International Joint Excavations in China 3. The Birth of Humanity and China’s Paleolithic Age 4. What Was “New” About the Neolithic Age? 5. Rice Agriculture and the Origins of Settled Society in East Asia 6. The Development of Regional Cultures 7. The Yangshao and Longshan Cultures 8. The Dawenkou and Shandong Longshan Cultures 9. The Majiabang, Songze, and Liangzhu Cultures 10. The Pengtoushan, Daxi, Qujialing, and Shijiahe Cultures 11. Western and Eastern Liaoning: The Spread of Farming and Hongshan Mortuary Culture 12. The Far East and South China: Why Did the People of Guangdong Adopt Agriculture? 13. When Humans Began Keeping Animals—the Great Wall Region 14. When Did China’s Bronze Age Begin? 15. Social Prestige and the Exchange of Objects: How Was Respect Earned? 16. Prehistoric Architecture: Reading Society Through Houses 17. Taosi: The Emergence of an Early State? 18. Idols and Grave Goods: Class and Ritual 19. Musical Instruments and Sacrifice 20. From Divination Bones to Oracle-Bone Inscriptions 21. Did the Xia Dynasty Exist? Where Did Erlitou Culture Come From? 22. Had Erlitou Reached the Dynastic Stage? 23. The Shang Dynasty Begins! 24. Where Did Sanxingdui Culture Come From? Conclusion: What Is “Zhonghua”? Bonus, Part I | Xu Hong: China Emerged from Nothing and Grew from Small to Great Bonus, Part II | Xu Hong: In This Sense, All History Is Contemporary History