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

Курс аудио лекций американского профессора-китаиста, Ричарда Баума (на английском языке), "Падение и возрождение Китая", The Teaching Company, Viginia, 2010 This course traces China’s tumultuous 200-year jouey from collapsing 19th-century empire to aspiring 21st-century superpower. The jouey 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.