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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... temples and monasteries. We have heard that up through the Three Dynasties the Buddha was never spoken of. So in this latter age it has transmitted its strange ways, instilling its infection with every opportunity, spreading like a ...
... temples and idols, give up alcohol and opium, and end the custom of footbinding women. December 1850: Hong Xiuquan's militia de- feats a government punitive column at This- tle Mountain. 1851–1861: Xianfeng reigns as Qing emperor. 1851 ...
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