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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... forces of yin and yang . The cult emphasizes , too , the special rela- tionship between the ruler and his ancestors . By around 50 B.C. a period of relative decline encourages the rise of a reformist movement that calls for a return to ...
... forces respond to a succession of threats from the Xiongnu on the northwest frontier in what is today Mon- golia . The invaders are driven from the bor- ders after key victories in 121 and 119 B.C. 128 B.C .: A Han effort to establish ...
... forces Wang Mang to rescind measures barring the buying and selling of slaves . 14 : Wang Mang's forces put down an uprising in modern Yunnan in southwest China . 18 : A peasant army forms under a woman leader known as Mother Lu , and ...
... force the withdrawal of Chinese farming communi- ties from northern frontier regions . 34 : After a long , difficult campaign , the em- pire pacifies northwest China . April - May , 35 : Han forces move against the last imperial rival ...
... forces defeat a Western Wei army , inflicting losses of more than sixty thousand men . 546-550 : To rebuild its military , once largely composed of troops drawn from the border peoples , Western Wei rulers attempt to re- Icruit Chinese ...