1. Tang: Medieval travel and the Silk roads (Xuanzang, Rubruck)
2. Song: Explorations in South-east Asia (Zhao Rugua, Zhou Daguan)
3. Ming: Travelling within the Ming empire (Xu Xiake and Gaspar da Cruz)
4. Qing: Christianity and the Jesuit accounts of China (Matteo Ricci, Du Halde, Le Comte)
5. Republican Era: Travel at the turn of the century (Shan Shili and Hu Shi)
6. reading week
7. Travel and gender
8. Travel and Science: explorations by Li Shizhen and Robert Fortune
9. Race and the colonial gaze
10. Attempts at diplomacy (Nieuhof, Macartney, Van Braam Houckgeest)