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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... leaders, transport them to Beijing, and execute them. Sporadic fighting continues until 1452. July 1449: Mongols ... leader and eight hundred ofhis followers are captured, transported to Beijing, and beheaded. 1465–1476: The Qing-Xiang ...
... leader Li Zicheng (1606–1645) is paramount in North China; bandit chieftain Zhang Xianzhong (1605–1647) controls much of the area between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. Both rebel leaders are Ming army deserters. 1636: Hong Taiji of the ...
... leaders. October 10, 1911: A New Army unit sympathetic to the revolutionaries mutinies in Wuchang. Other units rally ... leader Sun Yat-sen reaches Shanghai from France. December 29, 1911: Delegates from sixteen provincial assemblies ...
... leaders withdraw to the churian students in Beijing rally in protest of Nationalist policies;. island of Taiwan ... leader Song Jiaoren, thirty years old, is shot at the Shanghai railroad station. He dies two days later. Song's assailants ...
... leaders and other leftists are murdered over the Nationalist forces enter next several weeks. April 18, 1927: Defying the Guomindang leaders in Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek forms a Nationalist government with himself at the head. He ...