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About the Course
The purpose of this course is to summarize new directions in Chinese history and social science produced by the creation and analysis of big historical datasets based on newly opened Chinese archival holdings, and to organize this knowledge in a framework that encourages learning about China in comparative perspective.
Our course demonstrates how a new scholarship of discovery is redefining what is singular about modern China and modern Chinese history. Current understandings of human history and social theory are based largely on Western experience or on non-Western experience seen through a Western lens. This course offers alternative perspectives derived from Chinese experience over the last three centuries. We present specific case studies of this new scholarship of discovery divided into two stand-alone parts, which means that students can take any part without prior or subsequent attendance of the other part.
Part 1 (this course) focuses on comparative inequality and opportunity and addresses two related questions 鈥榃ho rises to the top?鈥� and 鈥榃ho gets what?鈥�.
Part 2 (/learn/understanding-china-history-part-2) turns to an arguably even more important question 鈥榃ho are we?鈥� as seen through the framework of comparative population behavior - mortality, marriage, and reproduction 鈥� and their interaction with economic conditions and human values. We do so because mortality and reproduction are fundamental and universal, because they differ historically just as radically between China and the West as patterns of inequality and opportunity, and because these differences demonstrate the mutability of human behavior and values.
Course Overview video: https://youtu.be/dzUPRyJ4ETk
Top reviews
AA
May 25, 2017
I loved the course. It gave me a totally different view of pre-revolution China. Even though I am not intoquantitative data, I still learned from the conclusions and interpretations of the data.
MA
May 16, 2023
This course has helped me to understand China through different dimensions. Teaching module and data elaboration are up to the mark.
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By Keawalin S
鈥�Jul 10, 2020
totally useful! love it!
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鈥�Aug 5, 2025
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By Carlos R N
鈥�Jul 2, 2025
Great Course!
By Yuda P A S
鈥�May 29, 2021
Good course
By lichuangye
鈥�Apr 4, 2017
good
By ERIC N J V
鈥�Aug 20, 2020
The video lessons were kind of long
By Gabriel M R L
鈥�Aug 14, 2018
Very good
By Jonathan G
鈥�Feb 28, 2018
This course was boring as hell.