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Good sources to learn about ancient+imperial china? (hexbear.net)
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Most casual history youtubers I watch can't go 20 minutes without making sinophobic "jokes". Anyone have better recommendations for learning pre-modern chinese history, everything from culture, monarchs, etc. of China that doesn't include liberal ideology or racism? Thanks!

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[–] maodun@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

if you want general history, there's a relatively comprehensive docu-series produced by CCTV6 from 2013 called 中国通史 General History of China (100 episodes). However it's in Mandarin Chinese, so not very podcast-able if you don't understand Mandarin, but there are english subs available (on a quick search, and a brief glance they look decent) and IMO the artifacts and depictions are worth the watch. If anything it might be a good launching point if you wanted to look into more specific topics, for example, philosophy which is often intertwined with religion and civics in Chinese history, or historic literature.

EDIT: found an english dub on youtube ^^ just search "general history of china eng dub"

EDIT AGAIN: comrade linked it below ^^