The Dragon’s Ledger: 2000 Years of Chinese Business Logic

1. Section 1: The DNA

   6 lessons

   1. Lecture 1: The First Macroeconomist
   2. Lecture 2: The Exit Strategy of the Business Saint
   3. Lecture 3: The Merger Maniac & Standardization
   4. Lecture 4: The Great Debate of 81 BC
   5. Lecture 5: Emperor Wu’s Abacus
   6. Lecture 6: Module 1 Review — The Official-Business Complex

2. Section 2: The Golden Age

   6 lessons

   1. Lecture 7: The City That Never Sleeps
   2. Lecture 8: The World's First Paper Money
   3. Lecture 9: Globalization in a Shipwreck
   4. Lecture 10: Who is the Boss?
   5. Lecture 11: The Needham Puzzle
   6. Lecture 12: Module 2 Review — Prosperity Without Freedom

3. Section 3: Merchant Syndicates & State Control

   6 lessons

   1. Lecture 13: The Empire's Bankers
   2. Lecture 14: The Cost of the Franchise
   3. Lecture 15: The Burnt Fleet
   4. Lecture 16: The Logic of Self-Blockade
   5. Lecture 17: The Only Window
   6. Lecture 18: The End of the World's Richest Man

4. Section 4: The Collision and Collapse

   6 lessons

   1. Lecture 19: Tea, Silver, and Opium (The Ledger of Blood)
   2. Lecture 20: The Experiment of "Government Supervision and Merchant Management"
   3. Lecture 21: The Elegy of the Red-Hat Merchant
   4. Lecture 22: The Birth of Commercial Warfare
   5. Lecture 23: The Scholar's Business
   6. Lecture 24: Module 4 Review : System Failure

5. Section 5: The Eternal Return

   6 lessons

   1. Lecture 25: The Pendulum of Power
   2. Lecture 26: Land: The Capital Safe Haven
   3. Lecture 27: The Gamble of Cloth and Bread
   4. Lecture 28: The Dunkirk of the East
   5. Lecture 29: 6 Billion for a Box of Matches
   6. Lecture 30: The Unfinished Ledger