To know more in depth

For those of you who want to learn more in depth, or who want to have some web resources at hand, I have prepared a selection of web resources related to the different units.

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Week 1. Unit 1. The name of China

Browse a website

• The Catalan Atlas, 1387
  BigMapsBlog

• The Catalan Atlas, 1387
  Bibliothèque Nationale de France

• World and regional maps before 1569 (link provided by Peter Condon)

Read an article

• Cartographic Images

• The Catalan Atlas
  “The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380), Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Analyse a source

• Benjamin of Tudela, The travels of Benjamin of Tudela

• William of Rubruck, Account of the Mongols

• Ruy González de Clavijo, Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the court of Timour at Samarcand

• Ruy González de Clavijo, Embajada a Tamorlán

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Week 1. Unit 2. China’s Historical boundaries

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• Chinese Dynasties

• Chinese Dynasties

• The true size (Link provided by Susan Jones)

• The unifying elements of China (link provided by Rob Stallard)
  China sage

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Week 1. Unit 3. China’s land

Browse a website

• National Geographic Interactive maps

• China’s provinces geography.
  Interactive, detailed maps of China, provinces, cites and sights. Hiddenchina.net

• Quiz of China’s Physical Geography

• Quiz of Chinese provinces

Read an article

• Ebrey, Patricia, Geography of China
  A visual sourcebook of Chinese civilization. Washington University

• McColl, Robert, Understanding the Geographies of China
  Education about Asia, volume 4, nº2, Fall 1999

• Robert Knapp, East Asia in Geographic perspective
  Asia for Educators. Columbia University.

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Week 1. Unit 4. China and the silk roads

Browse a website

• Silk Road Seattle
  University of Washington

• Silk Road Foundation

• The Silk Road
  Special Topic Guide. Asia for Educators, Columbia university.

• The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
  The British Library

• Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century
  Asia Society

• Silk road project, Silk Road Encounters Sourcebook

• The Silk Road interactive website
  Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education

• Adler, Joseph, Silk Road Links
  Asian Studies Program. Kenyon College.

• Silk Road Trade & Travel Encyclopedia (link provided by Cal DS)

• Silks from the Silk Road: Origin, Transmission and Exchange (link provided by Birgitte Crawfurd and Susan Jones)
  China National Silk Museum. Hangzhou

• Digital Silk Road Project
  Digital Archives of Cultural heritage. Digital Silk Road Project. National Institute of Informatics

Listen to a podcast

• The silk road
  Melvyn Bragg discusses the silk road with Tim Barrett, Professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies; Naomi Standen, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University; Frances Wood is Head of the Chinese Section at the British Library.

Read an article

• Christian’s, David, Silk Roads or Steppe Roads?The Silk Roads in World History.
  Journal of World History 11, no. 1 (2000): 1–26.

• Waugh, Daniel C. (editor). The Silk Road Journal
  Washington University

• Wild, Oliver (1992). The Silk Road
  University of California, Irvine

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Week 1. Unit 5. China in World History

Browse a website

• Wright, David. Chinese History Chart. Comparative chronology of China and the World
  Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding

• Chinese History chronological briefing
  Freer Sackler Galleries China History Timeline. The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art

• Ancient Eastern World, II
  Catawba guide for online materials for the History of China, from Ancient China to Ming, Catawba College.

• Heilbrunn Timeline of World Art History
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• China and the world comparative timeline (link provided by Susan Knowles)
  British Museum

• Timeline of Chinese History and Dynasties
  Asia for Educators

• Omnes viae, a reconstruction of the antique Peutinger map

• Chinese inventions (Link provided by Ruth Ann Parks)
  Asia Society

• Quiz Chinese dynasties

• A general quiz for major historical events

• Confucius, The Analects (link provided by George Thomas)

Listen to a podcast

• Jonathan Spence talking about Confucius
  BBC Radio 4

• China: As History is my Witness (Link provided by Cal DS)
  BBC Radio 4

Look at a video

• How to memorize China’s major dynasties? (link provided by Richard Wingfield)

Read an article

• Papermaking (Link provided by Cal DS)
  Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta.

• Suzanne M. M. Young et alt. The earliest use of iron in China, published in Metals in antiquity, ed. by Suzanne M. M. Young, A. Mark Pollard, Paul Budd and Robert A. Ixer (BAR international series,792), Oxford: Archaeopress, 1999, pp. 1-9.

eBooks: Kindle Edition
This bibliography only includes e-Books. The link for each book enables you to “Look inside” the Contents and a sample of pages.

• BECKWITH, Christopher I., Empires of the Silk road: a History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

• DILLON, Michael, China: A Cultural and Historical Dictionary

• EBREY, Patricia B. (ed.), Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook

• GOLDEN, Peter B., Central Asia in World History

• HANSEN, Valerie, The Silk Road: a New History

• LIU, Xinru, Silk Road in World History

• POMERANZ, Kenneth, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

• ROPP, Paul S. China in World History

• VRIES, Peer, State, Economy and the Great Divergence: Great Britain and China, 1680s-1850s

• WHITFIELD, Susan, Life along the Silk road

• WRIGGINS, Sally, The Silk Road. Journey with Xuanzang