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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... Qing - Xiang uprising in the refugee wasteland of the Middle Yangtze re- gion drags on for years . Imperial forces rec- ord initial successes , but the rebellion flares anew as famine and epidemic increase the flood of refugees ...
... QING DYNASTY : 1644-1912 The Qing dynasty rules from 1644 , but nearly a generation passes before the Manchu conquerors destroy the last of the Ming pretenders and consolidate their rule over all of China . The Man- chus extend their ...
... Qing. Some 20 million Chinese perish in the Taiping outbreak. In the last decades of the century, the Qing tries to adapt western technology and economic practices to China's needs: railroads, telegraphs, steamships, heavy industry ...
... Qing forces retake the city in 1650 , they carry out a great massacre of the Ming defenders . 1650 : With the death of the regent Dorgon , Emperor Shunzhi ( born 1638 ) asserts his au- thority and rules in his own right . He studies the ...
... Qing confirms control over all of China . July 1683 : A Qing naval expedition of three hundred warships destroys Koxinga's forces in the Pescadores . Taiwan itself falls to the Qing in October and is absorbed into the empire . 1689 ...