mungouk 989 Report post Posted February 6, 2019 For those who might be interested, Harvard's course on EdX, "China’s Political and Intellectual Foundations: From Sage Kings to Confucius" has just opened for enrolment. https://www.edx.org/course/china-part-1-political-and-intellectual-foundations-from-the-sage-kings-to-confucius-and-the-legalists-2 The instructors are Peter Bol and William Kirby from Harvard. Lasts 15 weeks, 1-3 hours per week. Free unless you want to pay GBP 69 for a certificate of completion. 2 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luxi 822 Report post Posted February 6, 2019 It's ChinaX relaunched, good! I hope it will be as inspiring as the first time it ran (2013). It was an excellent introduction to China's history and culture, I think most people enjoyed it. It reignited my enthusiasm for learning Chinese and made a mooc-addict out of me. I think the 15 weeks duration in the announcement is for the first 3 parts of the series, Part 1 should only be about 5 weeks. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mungouk 989 Report post Posted February 6, 2019 Now also live: "ChinaX part 2" aka China’s First Empires and the Rise of Buddhism and "ChinaX part 3" aka Cosmopolitan Tang: Aristocratic Culture in China both of these also 15 weeks, 1-3 hours per week. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luxi 822 Report post Posted February 9, 2019 I finally made time to look into Part 1. It's indeed based on ChinaX, but it seems to be a more grown up ChinaX. What I've seen so far adds a lot to the original syllabus - where Part 1 was quite fragmentary and maybe historically not very clear. This new course appears to be better structured, for instance the 1st section in Part 1 adds more on geography and on climate as a basis for the history that will follow. The new maps are impressive too. I haven't yet found a Chinese history series comparable to China X in the Chinese mooc platforms, where there are so far very few history courses (more will probably appear after the holiday), most of which seem to follow ancient texts almost religiously. I think a combination of the Chinese-style formality and Harvard ChinaX-style teaching strategies could be very exciting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex_Hart 337 Report post Posted February 19, 2019 On 2/6/2019 at 8:52 AM, mungouk said: The instructors are Peter Bol and William Kirby from Harvard. I've read some of Kirby's work on Republican/PRC foreign policy and have always enjoyed his insights - lots of aha moments. Have you watched the first lectures? How were they? I'll try to catch up this week, hope they're good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites