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This course introduces China's history and cultural heritage from antiquity to the end of the 19th century C.E. Political history, modes of governmental and socioeconomic organization, and developments in thought and religions will be examined in three major epochs: a formative age, from antiquity into the third century B.C.E.; an early imperial age, from the third century B.CE.. to the 10th century C.E.; and a later imperial age, from the 10th century C.E. to the late 19th century C.E.