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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... traditional system and sequence employed in the Western world. Many of the countries and regions included here have their traditional calendars—the Hindu calendar, for instance, a traditional Chinese calendar, a Muslim calen- dar, and ...
... traditional Christian boundary ; they simply change the nomenclature . Most history books being written still employ the B.C./A.D . system , so we decided to use it here . Rounded - off Dates We have mentioned that anthropologists have ...
... Traditional and Legendary Dates There are many dates commonly used in histories of countries that are in fact simply assigned by legend or tradition . Often these apparently specific dates have become important in the " history " of a ...
... traditional forms—Confucius, for instance—and especially when the traditional ver- sions seem to be the only ones still being used in most texts. Diacriticals The use of diacritical symbols—those marks added to letters Introduction xiii.
... traditional history, the Yellow Emperor of c. 2700 b.c., the first of the “Five Premier Emperors,” used force to create a unified state; his successors are said to build on his achievement. The story of these early reigns, however, is ...