Introduces the student to the broad outlines of the cultural history of traditional China from the roots of Chinese civilization (about 70,000 BCE), the earliest historical records (about 1200 BCE) up through the late imperial period (about 1644 CE).
Students can play the First Emperor, Confucius or Dschingis Khan and describe his respective contribution to Chinese history. Students will learn about the Terracotta warriors, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City etc.

Instructor: Dr. Martin Woesler, Email: martin.woesler@uvu.edu
Office hours: Thu 9.15 a.m. – 9.45 a.m. PE 151 F, phone: +1 (801) 863 5195
Chinese Lunch: Tue Thu 1.00 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., 2^nd floor SC cafeteria

Course web site: https://uvu.instructure.com/courses/220486, Course Syllabus: https://uvu.instructure.com/courses/220486/assignments/syllabus, Wiki: http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/index.php/Traditional_Chinese_History

Media (Spring 2013, for more updated information please see UVU Bookstore Booklist):

1. Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Kwang-Ching Liu, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge UP, 1999), ISBN 9780521124331, A#124,286

2. Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1, From Earliest Times to 1600, ed. William Theodore de Bary et al., 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia UP, 2nd ed. March 2000), ISBN 9780231109390, A#115,985

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This course is normally offered in Spring semester.

Student rating of instruction: Spring 2012 Instructor: 4.65 of 5.00 (93%), Course: 4.23 of 5.00 (84.6%)