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The Everlasting River — Audiobook
Turning points and transformations in Chinese history and culture
Completed · 75 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
0. Chinese History: A Complex System Open to Diversity 1. The Natural Geography That Nurtured Chinese Culture 2. Human Activity in the Paleolithic Age 3. Agriculture and Settlements 4. Regional Types and Convergence in Neolithic Cultures 5. Ancient Legends and the Division and Merging of Peoples 6. The Emergence of Complex Societies 7. Comparing the Development of Ancient Chinese and Mesopotamian Cultures 8. Entering the Bronze Age 9. Shang Culture at the Core of Ancient Civilization 10. The Huaxia Civilizational System: Western Zhou Feudalism and the Idea of the “Three Dynasties” 11. The Development and Reorganization of the Chinese Order: Regional Cultures and Integration 12. The Core of Chinese Thought Takes Shape: Confucius and the Dialectical Development of the Hundred Schools 13. The Rise of the South: The Yangtze Region and Its Integration with the Central Plains 14. Registered Households: State Organization and the Lives of the People 15. Resources and Ways of Life 16. Distinctive Features of Ancient Chinese Cultural Development 17. The Universal State 18. Intensive Agriculture and Market Networks 19. Integrating the Chinese Cultural System 20. Popular Beliefs 21. Contact between Northern Nomadic and Chinese Cultures 22. Moving South 23. Buddhism Enters China and Daoism Takes Shape 24. Everyday Life under the Qin and Han 25. Comparing the Qin-Han and Roman Empires 26. The Collapse of the Qin-Han Empire 27. China and Neighboring Peoples 28. The Influence of Buddhism 29. Literature and Art 30. Astronomy, Mathematics, and Medicine 31. Food, Clothing, Housing, and Travel in Medieval China 32. Transformations in the Economy 33. Relations among Ethnic Groups 34. China's Foreign Relations 35. Comparing the Tang and Islamic Empires 36. Late Medieval China and the System of States 37. Northern Regimes and the Han Chinese World 38. The Formation of an East Asian Economic Sphere 39. Economy and Plural Networks 40. The Intellectual Class since the Song Dynasty 41. Pluralism and Integration in Thought 42. The Development of Science and Technology in Late Imperial China 43. Everyday Life in Late Imperial China 44. Distinctive Features of the Transformation of China and East Asia 45. The Ossification of the Ming Cultural System 46. Population and Resources 47. The Turbulent Sea 48. The First Wave of Western Influence 49. Industry in the Ming Dynasty 50. The Ming Market Economy 51. Economic and Social Differences between North and South 52. Changes in Ming Thought 53. Ming China and Habsburg Spain 54. Taiwan under the Ming 55. The Nature of the Qing Empire 56. The Development of Taiwan 57. Ethnic and Cultural Conflict in the Early Qing 58. Qing Scholarly Culture 59. Organizations in Popular Society 60. Relations between China and Western States 61. Commerce in the Qing Dynasty 62. Cultural Contact between China and the West 63. Popular Culture 64. Europe at the Time 65. Internal Rebellion and External Threats 66. Changes in Modern China's Economy 67. Changes in the Education System 68. The Militarization of Modern China 69. The Rise of Metropolitan Culture 70. Intellectual and Cultural Change 71. Comparing the Chinese and Russian Revolutions 72. Comparing China's Reform Movement and Japan's Meiji Restoration 73. A Century of Change in Taiwan 74. Afterword