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Resources for 2011 Fall Lecture Series - The DNA of Modern China
Reading Suggestions
Lecture # 2:
- Roger Ames and David Hall's Thinking Through Confucius
- Jonathan Spence's To the Gate of Heavenly Peace;
- Arthur Waley's Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China;
- James Fallows Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Lecture # 3:
- J.K. Fairbank (ed) - The Chinese World Order
- E. Schafer - The Golden Peaches of Samarkand
- P. Curtin - Cross-cultural Trade in World History
- J. Bentley - Old World Encounters: Cross-cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-modern Times
- R. Hayashi - The Silk Road and the Shoso-in
- J. Gernet - Daily Life in China on the Eve of the K. Invasions
- M. Rossabi - Khubilai Khan
For Women:
- Bret Hinsch - Women in Early China
- Patricia Ebrey - The Inner Quarters
Lecture # 4:
- Bruce Gilley, China’s Democratic Future
- David Shambaugh, The Chinese Communist Party: Atrophy or Adaptation
- Richard McGregor, The Party
- Jianying Zha, The Tide Players
- Yu Hua, China in Ten Words
Lecture #5:
- Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- Jonathan Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
- Frederick Wakeman, Strangers at the Gate
Lecture #6:
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