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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... major errors in details (and they caught many). But they cannot be held responsible for every single date and “fact”: they were not asked nor expected (nor paid!) to repeat all the research, to serve as fact checkers. OTHER ELEMENTS ...
... major political crisis . The cause is a building resentment over the power of the eunuchs . The regent Dou Wu and a group of high bureaucratic allies plot to kill the leading eunuchs . October 24 , 168 : Eunuchs get wind of Dou Wu's ...
... major Liao invasion reaches the Yel- low River less than seventy miles from the Song capital at Kaifeng. It loses momentum, however, and both sides begin to talk peace. Song diplomats negotiate a treaty in which China agrees to pay an ...
... major coal and iron complex in central China . China yields , triggering anti - Japa- nese protests , often led by returned students who will found the May Fourth Movement in a few years . December 12 , 1915 : Yuan Shikai announces that ...
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