The 15 thematic units are listed below:
1. An introduction to China’s human geography
2. The contemporary Chinese political system and its challenges
3. Chinese antiquity: Xia, Shang, Zhou
4. The Warring States and the Hundred Schools
5. Rise and fall of the Han dynasty
6. The Empire divided: Three Kingdoms, Jin dynasty, Northern and Southern dinasties
7. The second Empire: the Tang dynasty [1st debate: the hundred schools]
8. Heavenly bureaucracy vs imperial autocracy: from the Song to Mongol domination, to Ming restoration
9. The Great Divergence and the Century of Humiliation: rise and fall of the Qing dynasty
10. Saving China: from self-strengthening to the Nanking decade
11. The second Sino-Japanese War and the foundation of the People’s Republic
12. Mao Zedong’s China
13. The Reform Era from Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao [2nd debate. Saving China]
14. The New Era and the Chinese Dream: Xi Jinping’s China
15. The Overseas Chinese