Chinese Civilization to 1911

3 units

China is the next frontier for U.S. business and is probably the single most powerful nation in the world, militarily, aside from America itself. The unique continuity of Chinese culture over thousands of years and its historically strong link to Chinese politics and power enables this course to lay a foundation of understanding China by tracing traditional Chinese thought, literature, and art from its beginnings in Shang bronzes and the Yijing to the surrealism of the eccentrics and the New Text School at the end of thei mperial period.