For those like me who don’t know much yet about China as a civilization, there’s a harvard mooc (massive open online course) that just started:
https://courses.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/SW12x/2013_SOND/info
Totally free, here’s the presentation:
We welcome you now to the first of our ChinaX “mini-courses:”
Part 1: The Political and Intellectual Foundations of China. Here we address the ways in which the political, the cultural, the social, and the economic were brought together to create a new order; one that would set the foundation for civilization that has lasted now for thousands of years.
Peter Bol, Bill Kirby, and the ChinaX Team