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Dynastic China

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21H.151
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2024English
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This course surveys the history of China from the first dynasty to the year 1800. It traces the rise of the world’s first centralized bureaucratic state, the development of the world’s oldest living written culture, and the formation of the pre-modern world’s largest single commercial market. It also studies women and men as they founded dynasties, engaged in philosophy, challenged orthodoxies, and invented technologies used around the globe.

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