MIT OpenCourseWare

“You can really see the care that went into this. Being able to take something as complex as Chinese history and make it digestible without oversimplifying it is a real skill. MIT students are lucky to have classes like this. Such courses are rare now, very precious.”

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“It’s awesome to listen to someone so clearly passionate about the subject. Awesome lecture!”

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“This course is so interesting, even for me as a Chinese person. It gives me a new, relatively objective perspective on the historical development of my own culture. I found it via a translated video on Bilibili and came to YouTube to support the original. It's a fantastic course, I hope to see all the lecture videos updated.”

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“Gotta say this lecture does a great job with the history of mainland-Taiwan relations. Keeps things nuanced without oversimplifying.”

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“Amazing course and what an intellectual treat! The energy is palpable.”

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“You’re the FIRST DUDE I’ve seen modeling the Ming Dynasty with PDEs—seriously impressive. So basically: The Ming is a boundary-driven harmonic system, maintaining equilibrium via internal redistribution, while the “error term” accumulates until the solution blows up?”

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“This guy is awesome, these students are lucky to have such an enthusiastic professor teaching them Chinese history.”

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“Wow, I was infected by this teacher's enthusiasm.”

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“MIT OpenCourseWare changed my life. I will forever be grateful to them for this initiative.”

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“Thank you very much Tristan, you made Chinese history much clearer for me. I didn't want to learn it in my history class when I was in China, but your lesson was so interesting to listen to.”

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“No point watching a few vids if you don't upload the entire series.”

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“Sucks that there are so few of these lectures online.”