Lecture No. 0027
China, cont’d
Lecture by Prof. Harvey Goldberg on modern China. Covers the unequal treaties, the Opium Wars, and Western territorial concessions in nineteenth-century China through the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) and attempts at reform under the Tongzhi Restoration (1860-74). Click below for text transcriptions and audio from the HGC’s official YouTube channel.
NOTE: Reflecting Goldberg’s own pronunciation of Chinese terms and the texts he would have referenced in the 1970s, transcripts use Wade-Giles romanization rather than Pinyin throughout (e.g., Peking for Beijing, Mao Tse-tung for Mao Zedong, etc.).