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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... June 25 in Korea , but only about 3:00 P.M. on June 24 in Washington . We give the date as it fell in Korea . As it happens , almost all the locales included in this volume lie east of the Greenwich time zone , so if there is a ...
... June 14 , 1206 : The Southern Song dynasty declares war on the Jin . The declaration as- serts that the Jin has lost the Mandate of Heaven and thus the right to rule . It also calls for an uprising of Chinese within Jin borders . 34 CHINA.
... , reopens top positions to Chinese candidates and restores the exami- nation system. June 1344: Toghto resigns as chancellor of the right. For the rest of the decade, Yuan's January 1359 : Rebels destroy the Yuan sum- mer capital 38 china.
... June 1370 : Taizu orders restoration of the civil service recruitment examinations . Summer 1370 : Taizu orders distribution of grain in drought - stricken areas of Yellow River valley . 1371 : Dissatisfied with the candidates , Taizu ...
... June 16, 1407: Chinese forces capture An- namite leaders and take them in triumph to Nanjing. Rebellions against the occupying Chinese break out at once, however, and the fighting drags on year after year. 1408: Construction of a new ...