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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... Shanxi provinces ) , Shang culture becomes widespread in North China and present Si- chuan . A written language emerges . Royal palaces are built in the capital towns . Mansions of the wealthy class feature post and beam construction ...
... Shanxi . It is rectangular and walled on all four sides , with the tradi- tional ancestral hall and great earth mound . 420-479 : The Liu Song dynasty rules in southern China . 479-502 : The Southern Qi dynasty succeeds the Liu Song ...
... Shanxi from their Mongolian encampments . 583 : Emperor Wendi turns his attention to local government reform , abolishing all of the more than five hundred commanderies in North China . He will abolish the south- ern commanderies after ...
... Shanxi province and in Chang'an and be- comes the effective ruler of the capital . 904 : Zhu Wen murders the emperor ; Aizong ascends as the last Tang emperor . 907 : Zhu Wen deposes Aizong and proclaims himself emperor of the Later ...
... Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hebei in north China. 960: Later Zhou dynasty forces mobilize to meet the invading Khitan. The Zhou senior commander seizes power for himself and founds the Song dynasty. He quickly brings North China under his ...