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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... B.C .: The Second Generation Emperor kills himself and is succeeded by a son of his older brother . January 206 B.C .: Rebels advancing from the The common people succeeded in putting behind them the sufferings 8 CHINA.
... January 10 , A.D. 9 : Wang Mang declares the Han dynasty at an end and proclaims him- self emperor . He will rule until A.D. 23 . A.D. 9 : Wang Mang orders a reorganization of the bureaucracy . He also bans the private buying and ...
... January 25 , 168 : Emperor Huandi dies , touching off a major political crisis . The cause is a building resentment over the power of the eunuchs . The regent Dou Wu and a group of high bureaucratic allies plot to kill the leading ...
... January 9 , 1150 : Court conspirators murder the violent , morbid , and paranoid Jin em- peror Xizong . 1150-1161 : Hailing , the leading figure in the Xizong murder conspiracy , rules the Jin . Chinese and Jurchen sources both portray ...
... January 1275 : Mongol armies cross the Yangtze , driving the Song defenders before them . The dowager empress Xie , acting for the underage emperor , issues a call for a mass uprising against the barbarians . December 1275 : Xie sends ...