🌏✨ Course Announcement — Introduction to Chinese Studies ✨🌏
🎓 A 20-lecture series by Dr. Saurav Sarmah,
Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences,
Chanakya University, Bengaluru
📺 Produced for IIT Kanpur – Swayam Prabha DTH Channel (Humanities & Social Sciences)
🗓 Recorded in 2022-23
Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate learners without prior exposure to Chinese Studies, the course explains key themes in a clear, India-centred classroom style, blending history, philosophy, politics, and international relations.
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📚 Lecture Titles
1. Origins of Chinese Civilisation
2. Mandate of Heaven: Rise and Fall of Dynasties
3. Confucianism
4. Schools of Ancient Chinese Thought
5. Religion in China
6. Religious Administration in China (Part I) & Scientific Thought in China (Part II)
7. Century of Humiliation: Discourse on Imperialism – Part I
8. Century of Humiliation: Discourse on Imperialism – Part II
9. Mao Zedong Thought
10. Transition of China to Market Socialism
11. Chinese Political System: The Party-State – Part I
12. Chinese Political System: The Party-State – Part II
13. India-China Relations (300 BCE – 1949): Geopolitics & Boundary Dispute
14. India-China Relations (1949 – 1962): Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai & the 1962 War
15. India-China Relations (1962 – 1993): Conflict & Peace
16. India-China Relations (1993 – 2021): Strategic Competition
17. China in the Cold War (1949 – 1989)
18. Rise of China (1989 – 2023): Threat, Opportunity or Myth
19. Trans-Himalayan Strategy, String of Pearls & Belt-Road Initiative
20. Soft Power in China’s Foreign Policy Discourse
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🎥 Watch the full series:
👉 YouTube Playlist – Introduction to Chinese Studies - YouTube
