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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... nationalist May Fourth Movement of 1919, student-launched but with broad support from all classes in China's cities. The two main national powers, the Nationalist Guomindang (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party, build their own ...
... Nationalist forces dissolve. The Com- munists take power in all of mainland China by 1949. The Nationalist leaders withdraw to the island of Taiwan, their last bastion. March 1912: Yuan Shikai's Beijing-based gov- ernment quells ...
... nationalism , democracy , and the people's livelihood- form the basis of Guomindang ideology . Sun , however , commands limited political authority from his base in Shanghai . 1921 : Workers in China's expanding indus- tries stage fifty ...
... Nationalist army under Chiang Kai-shek launches the Northern Ex- pedition, with Communist assistance and the help of Russian arms and advisers. July 11, 1926: Nationalists occupy the key Hunan city of Changsha. August 17–22, 1926: ...
... Nationalist forces enter Shanghai. March 23, 1927: Nationalist vanguard enters Nanjing. March 24, 1927: Nationalist troops in Nanjing loot the British, Japanese, and American consulates, killing six foreigners. American and British ...