There is a LOT of Chinese history!

Excellent online course on The European Discovery of China,  with the wonderful Professor Dolores Folch.   A fantastic resource, and it is free!  Amongst lots of excellent material, it uses the Qingming festival handscroll (Ming dynasty version).

Mind-expanding book on The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, and his view of the contemporary New Silk Roads book, and documentary.  The New Silk Road Project website.  A German documentary on this subject.

BBC radio podcasts include much on Chinese culture & history:

• China: As History is my Witness, a very interesting series on how history informs today’s China.
• The Reith Lectures 2008 opened up Chinese Vistas.
• In Our Time:
  • early sources of Chinese History
  • Silk Roads
  • Tea
  • Confucius
  • Sun Tzu and The Art of War
  • Daoism
  • Journey to the West
  • Zen
  • Legalism
  • the Han Synthesis
  • Warring States
  • The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • The Battle of Talas
  • the An Lushan Rebellion
  • Genghis Khan
  • Marco Polo
  • Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
  • The Ming Voyages of admiral Zheng He
  • the Great Wall
  • Li Shizhen and his natural remedies
  • the Taiping Rebellion
  • the Boxer Rebellion
  • the Opium Wars
  • the Second Sino-Japanese War
  • the Long March
  • the Cultural Revolution
  • the Needham Question
• A History of Ideas included Ancestor Worship and Creation Myths including Daoism.
• A History of the World in 100 Objects included:
  • Zhou bronze vessel
  • bronze bell
  • the Admonitions Scroll
  • Silk Road wall painting
  • Tang tomb figures
  • Yuan vases
  • Ming banknote
  • Jade Bi
  • Solar-powered lanp
• Chinese Characters  – from the female Emperor Wu Zetian to Bruce Lee and many more!

Other excellent podcasts (I have referenced the websites, but you need to find the podcasts themselves through your normal podcast platform):

• Comprehensive China History Podcast, and its Youtube channel, with a thematic approach, by Lazlo Montgomery
• The History of China podcast: a detailed chronological survey by Chris Stewart
• A short Silk Road History, by Nathan Cherry
• The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• The Chinese Literature Podcast, with Rob Moore and Lee Moore
• the Chinese Sayings Podcast, and exploration of multiple chengyu and their historical backgrounds Lazlo Montgomery