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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... known instance of these is the change in transliterating Chinese names and words. For many years, the Western world (at least in English) relied on a system named after its two nineteenth-century English proponents, Wade-Giles. Starting ...
... known Homo erectus fossil found in China. 500,000–250,000 B.C.: Hominids of the species Homo erectus inhabit caves at Zhoukoudian, a limestone hill on the edge ofChina's north-central plain about thirty miles southwest of present-day ...
... known as the Warring States period, seven major rivals jockey for supremacy. The Zhou king is no longer a real factor, as regional lords begin calling themselves kings and refuse to acknowledge the slowly dying dynasty. The rivals are ...
... known as the Green Sprouts Act, enabling farmers in difficulty to borrow seed grain in the spring against the expected harvest in the autumn. He imposes price controls and extends credit to small merchants and manufacturers. Modern ...
... known for tobacco and sugar cane; neighboring Jiangxi produces the best of China's porcelain. Literature, philosophy, education, and the arts flourish. The full-length novel, which existed in the earlier Song and Yuan periods, develops ...