History of China from earliest times to the present day. Topics to be covered include the formation of Chinese culture and its philosophic and religious traditions; the development of the bureaucracy and other structures of empire; China's evolving place in the world (the Silk Road, the Great Wall, the Opium War, etc.); traditions of political reform, from Confucianism to Communism; twentieth-century revolutions; and Chinese modernity and nationalism.
| Lives of Confucius by Nylan, Michael | Harmony. ISBN: 978-0385510691 | Required |
| Six Chapters from My Life Downunder by Yang, Jiang | University of Washington Press. ISBN: 978-0295966441 | Required |
| Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories by Lu, Xun | University of Hawaii Press. ISBN: 978-0824813178 | Required |
| Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen, Fu | Penguin Classics. ISBN: 978-0140444292 | Required |
| A Tale of Two Melons by Schneewind, Sarah | Hackett Publishing. ISBN: 978-0872208247 | Required |
| Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd ed., Vol. 1 by de Bary, William Theodore | Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0231109390 | Required |
| Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 2nd ed. by Ebrey, Patricia | Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521124331 | Required |
