I consider myself a history buff but I know embarrassingly little

>>2738847
I got my Chinese history from all over the place but for Chinese philosophy, you should read both volumes of de Bary's "Sources of Chinese Tradition".

books that "overview" china skip over so many things, especially the small whimsical stuff that takes the fun out of chinese history.

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>>2738847
xian is the centre of the world
anything north of the yellow river is mongs
anything south of the yangzi (sth) river is niggers
north korea IS china
anything north of that is manchuria
manchuria could have owned the eastern sphere if it were not for the anglo
steppe are cannabis babies
check out zomia and the art of not being governed to learn the borderlands between the worlds 2 population powers
chinese are brainwashed but so is any other population, theres is just more uniform
asians are a tier 2 race between caucasian and negroid

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Anyone have good reading lists for each dynasty and time period?

>>2738847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWORyToTo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCEeC4f6ts

>inb4 John Green is a meme

>>2738847
China: A History by John Keay is good for an overview of the major dynasties of Imperial China but very little on the Republic and the People's Republic, while China: A New History by John King Fairbank is less detailed on Imperial China but has a lot to say about the Republic onwards.

>>2738847
Torrent the TTG course from Zhao to Mao, 5000 years of Chinese history

>>2740867
What's a TTG course?

>>2738847

Watch "Hero".