Richard Baum. The Fall and Rise of China. Lecture 1. The Splendor That Was China

A course of audio lectures by American sinologist professor Richard Baum (in English), "The Fall and Rebirth of China", The Teaching Company, Virginia, 2010This course traces China’s tumultuous 200-year journey from collapsing 19th-century empire to aspiring 21st-century superpower. The journey begins with the decline and fall of the Manchu dynasty under the dual stresses of increasing foreign penetration and rising domestic disorder and culminates in China’s rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes of radical, revolutionary Maoism to become a globalized, marketized economic — and potential military — powerhouse.