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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... emperor , is born . 250 B.C .: Lu Buwei , a rich merchant , rules as chancellor of Qin . 246 B.C .: Still a child , King Zheng comes to the Qin throne . 238 B.C .: Zheng reaches his majority and be- gins to exercise power . 237 B.C ...
... emperor , reigning as Gaodi until his death in 195 B.C. 202 B.C .: Gaodi declares a general amnesty and implements measures to restore law and order throughout his dominions . He shifts the capital from Luoyang to Chang'an near modern ...
... emperor of the Early Han dynasty . May , A.D. 6 : Wang Mang declares himself act- ing emperor . Fabricating a genealogy , this scion of the lesser gentry will claim descent from the legendary Yellow Lord , a Han di- vinity . Chinese ...
... Emperor Guangwu to abolish thirty coun- ties in the north and shrink the government bureaucracy there . 33-44 : Intermittent Xiongnu raids force the withdrawal of Chinese farming communi- ties from northern frontier regions . 34 : After ...
... emperor . 144-145 : Rebellions break out in southeast- ern China ; one in 145 ends with the deaths of nearly four thousand insurgents . March 6 , 145 - July 26 , 146 : Zhidi reigns briefly as emperor and dies under murky cir- cumstances ...