Description

With its vast area and long history of settlement, present China ought to have hundreds of distinct cultures and peoples. In fact, all the evidence indicates that it once did. Coming from a modern uniform Europe we ponder, what happened to them all?
1. Becoming Han-ren. An ordeal of the highest order.
2. Civilised vs barbarians.
2.1. Variety across time and space
2.2. A glimpse at the course materials
3. Historic mobility of people: Two models of systematic Sinicization
3.1. The South(west)ern lands: From Qi’n to Yuan.
3.2. The north: the ever-lasting clash of two modus vivendi
4. A brief cultural synthesis.
4.1. Cultural assimilation: foreign things made Chinese
4.2. Artifacts: writing systems. 3 exemples