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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... period but little is known oftheir way oflife except that they make crude stone tools. 250,000–50,000 B.C.: Sometime during this period, archaic Homo sapiens inhabit sites in various parts of China. Most modern scientists believe that ...
... period of general quiet and prosperity. 2357–2258 B.C.: Han dynasty tradition claims that Yao's long reign is marked, toward the end (c. 2300? b.c.), by a legendary Great Flood that inundates vast areas ofthe Yellow and Yangtze river ...
... period, partly the result of more widespread irrigation and draining. Population growth and urbanization characterize the period. 400 B.C.: The political unit known as the commandery is mentioned for the first time in the state of Wei ...
... period sees a reasonably open society, although a wide gulf divides rulers and the ruled, rich and poor, landowners and peasants. In Later Han, new figures rise to positions of power and wealth, and great landed families are dominant ...
... periods, develops during the Ming; examples (both of uncertain authorship) are The Water Margin, an outlaw tale set in the Song period, and The Journey to the West, the story ofa Buddhist pilgrimage to India during the Tang dynasty ...