Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and CultureJohn S. Bowman Columbia University Press, 2000 M09 5 - 512 pages Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia—East, South, Southeast, and Central—from the Paleolithic era through 1998. Each entry is clearly dated and, unlike most chronologies found in standard history texts, the entries are complete and detailed enough to provide virtually a sequential history of the vast and rich span of Asian cultures. The contributing writers and editors have ensured the book's usefulness to general readers by identifying individuals and groups, locating places and regions, explaining events and movements, and defining unfamiliar words and concepts. |
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... August Lord of Qin . 221-210 B.C .: The First Emperor , Zheng , di- vides the empire into thirty - six command- eries , each subdivided into counties , impos- ing centralized bureaucratic rule . He standardizes the Qin law code for all ...
... August 25 : Han restoration forces enter Chang'an . Liu Xiu , thirty years old , pro- claims himself Son of Heaven and ascends the throne as first emperor of the Later Han . Later Han ( A.D. 25-220 ) August 5 , 25 - May 29 , 57 : The ...
... August 1 , 146 : Huandi is emperor . He will reign until 168 . c . 150 : The imperial harem numbers six thou- sand women . They arrive as virgins age thir- teen to twenty and are selected for their beauty , bearing , and manners . c ...
... August 15, a typhoon strikes Japan, destroying close to half the Yuan in- vasion force. The Japanese call this storm kamikaze (divine wind). Khubilai calls off the campaign and the survivors return to China. Imperial forces quell a ...
... August 1291: Sangha, the last of the three vil- lainous ministers, is removed from office and executed. February 18, 1294: Khubilai Khan, old, fat, and crippled with gout, dies in his palace. May 10, 1294: Chengzong, a grandson of ...