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Lecture 1: China, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula, Korean Peninsula, Japanese Islands [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokkaido], Tarim Basin, Tibetan Highlands, Mongolian Plateau, Gansu Corridor, Loess Plateau, Wei River, Yellow River, Yangzi River, Liao River, Yalu River, Japan Sea, Korean Strait, Inland Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan, South China Sea

Lecture 2: Paleolithic, Neolithic, prehistory, chronology, loess, Yangshao, Longshan

Lecture 3: Xia (Hsia); Shang, Anyang, Zhou (Chou), Bronze Age, Iron Age

Lecture 4: Confucius, Mencius, Confucianism, Mo Zi (Mo Tzu) Mohism, Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu), Daoism (Taoism), Han Fei Zi (Han Fei Tzu), Legalism

Lecture 5: China: Qin (Ch'in), Shih Huangdi; Han, Han Kao-tsu (Liu Bang [Liu Pang]), Changan (Ch'ang-an), Luoyang (Loyang), Xiongnu (Hsiung-nu), commanderies; Korea: Koguryo, Silla [Shilla], Paekche, Pyongyang

Lecture 6: Buddha, Mahayana, Boddhisatva, Chan [Ch'an], Maitreya

Lecture 7: Sui, Tang (T'ang), equal field system, Grand Canal

Lecture 8: Jomon, Yayoi, Shinto, haniwa, kami, Taika, Kansai, Kanto

Lecture 9: Tomb culture, Yamato, Manyoshu, Horyuji, Prince Shotoku, Todaiji, Nakatomi, Taika Reform

Lecture 10: Nara (Heijo), Heian (Kyoto), Home Provinces, Fujiwara, shoen, Tendai, Shingon, Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji

Lecture 11: gentry, Song (Sung), jinshi (chin shih), Kaifeng, Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi)

Lecture 12: Mongol, Chinggis Khan,

Lecture 13: Yuan, Khubilai, Marco Polo, Peking [Beijing]

Lecture 14: Ming, Zheng He (Cheng Ho), Wang Yang-ming, wako

Lecture 15: Taira (Heike), Kamakura, Minamoto (Genji), Hojo, samurai, shogun, bakufu, shugo, Tale of the Heike

Lecture 16: Ashikaga, shugo daimyo, Zen, No (Noh), Sesshu, Kinkakuji

Lecture 17: Onin, sengoku daimyo

Lecture 18: Ryukyu Islands, Jesuits, Goa, Malacca, Macao, Mateo Ricci, Tanegashima, Francis Xavier, Nagasaki, namban

Lecture 19: Jurchen, Manchu, Nurhachi, Liaodong, Willow Palisades, banner system

Lecture 20: gekokujo, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu

Lecture 21: The Liefde, Will Adams, Shimabara, Hideyori

Lecture 22: Edo, Tokugawa, bakuhan system, fudai daimyo, tozama daimyo, alternate attendance system (sankin kotai), sakoku, Yoshimune, Deshima, ukiyo-e

Lecture 23: Qing (Ch'ing), Kangxi (K'ang Hsi), Qianlong (Ch'ien-lung), Law of Avoidance, Canton system, Taiwan, Tibet, "dynastic cycle"

Lecture 24: Opium War, unequal treaties, most favored nation policy

Lecture 25: rangaku movement, sonno-joi, Commodore Perry