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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John S. Bowman. China. political. history. PREHISTORIC AND LEGENDARY CHINA: 1,960,000–2208 B.C. Until the late 1980s, it was believed that the first hominid (Homo erectus) appears in China about 800,000 b.c.; excavations at the newly ...
... China is the oldest known Homo erectus fossil found in China. 500,000–250,000 B.C.: Hominids of the species Homo erectus inhabit caves at Zhoukoudian, a limestone hill on the edge ofChina's north-central plain about thirty miles ...
... China's authority in the Korean peninsula fails and is aborted. But Han China manages to set up a commandery in Manchuria. 124–118 B.C.: Gongsun Hong rises from pigkeeper to rule as chancellor, Han's highest office. 122 B.C.: Rebellion ...
... China. 30: Outmigration from North China leads Emperor Guangwu to abolish thirty counties in the north and shrink the government bureaucracy there. 33–44: Intermittent Xiongnu raids force the withdrawal of Chinese farming communities ...
... Chinese drives the Jin from North China. Waves of Tibetan tribes overrun northwestern China. The proto-Mongol Xianbei set up states in Gansu in the west and Hebei in the east. These intruders intermarry, adapt to Chinese ways, and rule ...