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 ... Chinese in the activities of a more sedentary civilization: fishing, hunting, farming, and trading. In China's ...
... 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 ...
... Chinese families with roots in the Han upper class. The great families find protection and security in the arrangement; the alien rulers tap the governing skills and general knowledge of the Chinese. 398: Northern Wei rulers order a ...
... China from the northwest. They solicit Chinese support with promises to overturn the empress and restore Tang rule. 698: Empress Wu turns on Lai Junchen, a minister who had carried out a reign of terror on her behalf. The capital's ...