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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... East Asian Languages and Cultures Columbia University Japan Harold Bolitho Professor of Japanese History Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University Korea Edward W. Wagner Professor of Korean History ...
... eastern shores of the Mediterranean, incorporates what we know as the Middle East, winds around the southern borders of Russia and the Urals, and then sweeps across a great land mass, including many offshore islands. The Asia of this ...
... eastern China during this period but little is known oftheir way oflife except that they make crude stone tools ... east of the Yangshao settlements. The Lungshan people exchange their goods, and this leads to some accumulation of ...
... east to Luoyang; this brings the Western Zhou subperiod to a close and inaugurates the Eastern Zhou. From this point, Zhou royal power is nominal and Zhou kings reign as figureheads. 770 B.C.: Qin becomes a full principality, beginning ...
... East China coast. c. 219 B.C.: Li Si rises to become chancellor of the left, the highest governmental post in Qin ... eastern China, allegedly to seek an elixir of immortality from Daoist magicians, bringing his thirty-seven-year reign ...