this course introduces foundamental information about the discipline, general theories and ways in researching the human history, focusing the interpretation of the concept of the world history, the macroscopic observation of the world history parcticed by western scholars, and the basic viewpoints of the textbook World Civilizations edited by scholars of Beida, a book which stresses very much the function of the cultural exchange in the development of the global community.

There are at least two reasons for studying medieval history. The first is to learn to understand medieval civilization; the second is to learn to understand our modern world more deeply by exploring its medieval origins. We would like introduce and study some important historical contents, including medieval politics, economy, society, religion and culture, etc., in order that students are able to learn and understand important medieval figures and events, institutions and cultures, etc. At the same time, we wish that students might step into the academic study through understanding medieval scholarships, translating English sources, writing academic papers, and discussing in oral expression.

The course is offered for undergraduate students of non-history department in the Peking University. This is a course in an all round way to review Chinese history from ancient times to the Qing Dynasty. The students will know the outline of ancient Chinese history and be interested in it.

"It’ll be offered after Modern History of China(1840 -), and divided into two part by the year of 1949. The first part is "The History of the Republic of China ” (1919-1949) and the second part "The History of the People’s Republic of China (1949-)” The course will be taught in the teaching mode of "general history”, divide history into several parts and periods. It’ll focus on political history of modern China with giving some consideration to economy, military, diplomacy, society, culture and ideas."

Asia is the most dynamic area in 20th century world history. This course spans from the ancient to contemporary time. It addresses Asian history as a whole from mulit-perspectives, such as the evolution of state, marine history, environmental history and history of cultural exchange. It will stimulate students to reconstruct his own Asian history based on the deconstruction of eurocentrism in Asian history scholarship.

It mainly relates to the modern history of Europe. It involves the building of European national states in the early modern time; modern concepts of science and democracy, and their influences on the Europe; the national democracy revolutions in the states of Europe, and the industrial revolution in Europe; the nationalism and imperialism lately 19century; the world wars and there effects on Europe; the diplomacies of Europe in cold war; the changes of politics, economy, society and culture in Europe 20 century; the revolution and reforms at Russia and the eastern European states; and Europe after cold war.

The course covers the history of Americas from early 16th century to the present. It is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the history of Latin America, focusing on the evolution of Latin America’s position in the world system, the search of Latin American nations for the path to modernization, and some important thoughts and theories in this process. The second parts discusses the history of the United States from early 17th century to 1970s and explores how the US emerged from thirteen British colonies to a superpower. The special emphasis will be placed on American nation building and its democratic experience, social reforms and civil rights movement, and its contacts with outside world in the 20th century.

The course teaches modern Chinese history from the Opium War in 1840 to the May 4th movement in 1919. It focuses on analyzing some key issues of various periods.

"As a cradle of human being’s history, Africa is not only a geographical term, but also represents a civilization. Her history shows a unique process of development of human society and culture. To study this process from the viewpoint of history, we need to know the first of all the division of historical periods, through which we can understand several important stages in the course of her history and better understand Africa today as well. Secondly, we would like to emphasize that Africa has made its own contribution to the world history. The history of African is a part of the world history. We cannot see Africa today without historical perspective. Thirdly, we have to pay attention on the history of Sino-African relations. For students, they can do a comparison between Africa and China history; for scholars, compared with Western scholars, Chinese scholars may have certain advantages to know the subject. Moreover,the international media coverage on China-Africa relations has been rapidly multiplied in recent years. This requires that we learn the history of China-Africa relations to make our own judgment on the status quo."

This course is designed to briefly introduce the basic ideas and principles of history, with an emphasis on the intellectual debates and different approaches in dealing with history. The major propositions of traditional, classical, modern, and postmodern historiography are included in the discussion. It also intends to lead the students to understand the ways of the producing of historical knowledge, and the basic norms and techniques of writing history.

ntroduction to ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Indian civilizations, including history and culture. economy and trade, language、writing and literature. The main topics are: origin of early writings and states, enviroment and early civilizations, divine kingship, law and society, comparative studies on myths, and so on.

The course is intended to introduce some basic knowledge of Chinese history.

This curriculum is a professional compulsory course for the undergraduate in the department of history. The time range of the teaching content is from the pre-Qin period to the first half of the 20th century. By taking this course, the students can have a basic understanding of the development process and rule of Chinese historiography, the representative historian and historiography achievement as well as its characteristics, the evolution course of historiography, the development thread of the historiography thought, and the relations between historiography and other fields of academic culture, etc. Thus, they will have an overall view on Chinese historiography.

This is a mandatory course for history major students. It will present the history of ancient Greece and Rome in a systematic way. Through the lectures and reading outside the classroom, students are expected to learn the important facts of Greek and Roman history and to learn scholarly research on some of the important issues.

The main purpose of this class is to introduce the basic facts, the principle methodologies, as well as the development of the history of the ethnic groups of ancient China, with which the students shall realize that the Chinese history is not only the experience of Huaxia-Han people, but also that of the ethnic groups within ancient China. The ethnic peoples all share the same process of the creation of Chinese history. It is necessary for anyone to well understand history with a wide view of peoples other than Huaxia-Han. This class focuses on the history of Altaic peoples, of whom consist the main members to conquer and rule the proper China in almost two thousand years.

History of Imperial Examination and Election(Keju) in China 1,Introduction of Keju 2,System during Sui and QingDynasty 3,Keju in Politics 4,Keju and Society 5,Keju and Culture 6,Researh on Keju

Before the opening of the modern Chinese history from the middle of the 19th century, when the European imperialism came to the China, the traditional China has relations with other part of the world since very earlier period. The history of the relationship is very colorful. In pre-Qin period, the Nomads carry out the economic and cultural exchange between China and the West. In the 2nd century BC, Zhang Qian opened the directed connection between Han China and the Central Asia and even Western Asia and Southern Asia. The so-called Silk Road was set up and many Central, Western and Southern Asian came to China. Their culture and religions influent Chinese people deeply. Since Song dynasty, the Silk Road through the South China sea was flourish and trade was more and more important for China. From the end of Ming dynasty, Jesuit Mission came to China and Chinese culture introduced into Europe. All of the subjects above are the main content of the class.

It covers the periods from the ancient Near East up to the end of the 20th century. The students will read the outline of historical development in world history, but their main efforts will be directed to understanding and discussing sources written in English.

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Its main content is the shaping process of the western historiography, including the significant historians and their works, the rules of historical narrate and the traditions of historiography as well, in Greece and Rome age; The main characteristics of western historiography in Medieval time, the historical ideas of Christianity; rationalism historiography, romanticism historiography, positivism historiography, and objectivism historiography in 18-19 century; The impact of Marxism on the western historiography, modern historical philosophy, the new trends of contemporary western historiography.