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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... court cliques , and eunuchs . 135 : Eunuchs are granted the right to adopt sons . They thus may have families that can inherit their wealth and power , which grow apace as the century advances . 137 : The government puts down rebellion ...
... court , too weak to react , turns to provincial warlords for protection . By February 185 the outbreak is quelled . May - September , 189 : Shaodi reigns as em- peror . May , 189 : The dissident warlord Dong Zhuo advances to within ...
... court to large provincial landowners with their own courts and private armies. Three rival kingdoms, Wei, Wu, and Shu Han, temporarily survive the wreck of Later Han. The successor to Wei, the Jin, briefly reunifies the country. But it ...
... court functionaries are massacred . Within a decade , the revolt will lead to the division of the Wei state . 534-535 : Rebellion and internal division break the Northern Wei dynasty into two parts . The more economically productive ...
... court reports that Liao law now weighs no more heavily on Chinese subjects than the Khitan tribes . themselves . But he is astonished at the high level of court corruption . 1091-1093 : Song renew attacks on Xia . Im- perial forces ...