I think Prof Von Glahn is a great professor even though he is monotonic, which is not his fault! He is well organized for every lecture and you can see that he is really trying to make the lecture more interesting. it is sad sometimes to see some students falling asleep in the class and you can tell that he really cares about the learning of his students. One time, he came to my 8 o'clock discussion just to sit in the back and listen to our opinion about the subject. In the last day of lecture, you can so tell that he loves chinese hist because of the way he describe his experience at Beijing. If you really have an interest in chinese hist i would recommend taking him, although some of the reading can be very boring (a few are interesting). I highly recommend Von Glahn!

Professor von Glahn was fine. His lecture were fairly organized, though sometimes I feel like he speaks too fast and I lose some information here and there. The essays and exams weren't terribly hard, and the TA I had, Zhang, was pretty good and knowledgeable, though sometimes he mummbles a bit and was a bit hard to understand. However, some of the reading in the class, especially the Buddhist scriptures, were a bit painful to read.