Howard Spendelow earned a PhD in history and East Asian languages from Harvard University, taught history at Georgetown University from 1979 to 2023, and from 1980 to 2014 he also served as Contract Chair of the Advanced Area Studies Seminar on China at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute. In this episode, Howard previews his two upcoming courses for the fall - "Japan’s Early History to the 1868 Meiji Restoration", and, "China’s Early History."