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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... cultural roots of Tibet and its distinctive history. Likewise, the decision to give Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau their own separate chronologies is not intended to make any political statement: this simply reflects the history of these ...
... Culture, Thought, and Religion and Science-Technology, Economics, and Everyday Activities For the three major countries—China, India and Japan—we provide chronologies that deal with attainments in the arts, thought, religion, and other ...
... cultures in China, and practices suggesting ideas of kinship, the arts, and religion develop. appears China's legendary history opens around 3,000 b.c. with the advent of a series of semidivine figures who instruct the nomadic Chinese ...
... culture , the Lungshan culture develops to the east of the Yangshao settlements . The Lungshan people exchange their goods , and this leads to some accumulation of wealth , which in turn leads to a society that appears to support more ...
... Cultural change comes fast and furious. The New Culture Movement seeks to throw off the dead hand of the Confucian past. Periodicals such as New Youth reject traditional ways of thinking. Newspapers find wider audiences. Classical ...