# MIT 21H.151 Dynastic China, Fall 2024

Instructor: Tristan G. Brown View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21h-151-dynastic-china-fall-2024 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60g8vnEsLGuA4Kt-d5vNqy9 *NOTE: This collection contains select lectures from Prof. Brown’s class.* This course examines the first dynasty to 1800. It traces the rise of the world’s first centralized bureaucratic state, the development of the world’s oldest living written culture, and the formation of the pre-modern world’s largest single commercial market. It also studies women and men as they founded dynasties, engaged in philosophy, challenged orthodoxies, and invented technologies used around the globe. Finally, the course explores China’s past to understand the country’s present, and reflects on what its stories mean for the global world. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments .

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- By: MIT OpenCourseWare
- Genres: Education, Science, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/mit21h_151f24)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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