"This survey focuses both on the interplay in Chinese history between isolation and foreign influences and on China's innovations in arts, religion, and philosophy. In addition to looks at China's geographic regions, economic strengths, and ethnic diversity, the program includes an illustrated introduction to Chinese ideograms.

Textual sources include a substantial collection of teachings of Confucius and Buddha, The Sayings of Mencius, a play (The Sorrows of Han), and contemporaneous histories of the Boxer Rebellion and Sun Yat Sen's 1911 revolution. For Mac and Windows."