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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... campaign , the em- pire pacifies northwest China . April - May , 35 : Han forces move against the last imperial rival , Gongsun Shu , on the Yangtze . December 24 , 36 : Han army reaches Gong- sun Shu's capital , Chengdu . Gongsun is ...
... campaign. But a spreading insur- gency at home makes a resumption of the offensive impossible. Tenth month, 614: Yangdi returns from the field, first to Luoyang, the eastern capital, then to Chang'an. Early 615: Imperial forces scatter ...
... campaign and the survivors return to China. Imperial forces quell a rebellion south of the Yangtze; Khubilai's ... campaigns in Annam (modern northern Vietnam). Though the fighting is inconclusive, Annam and neigh- boring Champa (today's ...
... campaigns to disperse the Mongol tribes raiding the northern frontier. In the first campaign, Yon- gle leads an army of 300,000 from Beijing north to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. October 28, 1420: Beijing is formally desig- nated China's ...
... campaigns and the heavy burden of stipends to more than twenty thousand imperial clansmen, the Ming faces bankruptcy ... campaign against Nurhaci's Later Jin. It is a disaster. Within a few weeks, the Manchus win a series of battles and ...