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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... Japan send expeditionary forces to subdue it. July 21, 1894: Japanese troops seize the Ko- rean royal palace in Seoul and install a pup- pet regent. At sea, a Japanese warship sinks a Chinese troopship, drowning a thousand soldiers en ...
... Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, now dubbed “Manchukuo”—Chinese for “Manchurian nation.” May 1932: Japan agrees to an armistice that ends three months of fighting around Shanghai. July–October 1932: The third in a series of ...
... Japanese warplanes attack and sink the U.S. gunboat Panay as it at- tempts to evacuate American nationals from Nanjing ... Japan. Com- munists withdraw and regroup north of the river. Chiang Kai-shek imposes an economic blockade, sharply ...
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