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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... December 27 , 683 : Emperor Gaozong dies . December 30 , 683 : The heir apparent is en- throned as Zhongzong . Winter 683 : Nobles and princelings jealous of Wu begin to plot against her . Rebels seize Yangzhou on the Yangtze River and ...
... December, fearing arrest, Wei hangs himself. 1627–1628: Severe famine causes widespread hardship in northern Shaanxi. The famine is an outgrowth of a “little ice age” that chills much of China during the first decades of the seventeenth ...
... December 1661 : Wu Sangui leads Qing ex- peditionary force into Burma to track down . the last Ming claimant . February 1662 : The Dutch on Taiwan surren- der to Zheng Chenggong ( Koxinga ) . He dies later in the year , but his ...
... December 1852: The Qing loyalist Zeng Guofan (1811–1872) organizes a local force, to be known as the Xiang Army, to defend his Hunan estates from the Taipings. He will become the most effective imperial com- mander in the rebellion ...
... December 1911: New Army revolution- aries capture Nanjing. December 25, 1911: Revolutionary Alliance leader Sun Yat-sen reaches Shanghai from France. December 29, 1911: Delegates from sixteen provincial assemblies choose Sun Yat-sen as ...