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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... Mao Tse-tung has become Mao Zedong; and so on. In general, we go along with this new system. But in a few instances, we have stayed with the traditional forms—Confucius, for instance—and especially when the traditional ver- sions seem ...
... Mao Zedong gain control of North China village and country districts out of range of the Japanese occupation. They carry out land redistribution and other reforms and build considerable support for their aims. The Communists emphasize ...
... Mao Zedong ( 1893–1976 ) is a Hunan delegate to this founding party conference . The son of a rich and educated peasant father and an illiterate mother , he is a graduate of the Changsha teachers college , a librarian at Beijing ...
... Mao Zedong (1928) Late 1928: Nationalist pressure forces Mao Zedong's little army out of the Jinggang Mountains. He resettles in a mountainous district along the Jiangxi-Fujian border and establishes the Jiangxi Soviet there, with his ...
... Mao Zedong's Jiangxi Soviet. Nationalists launch the “3:7” program—an anti-Com- munist campaign three parts military and seven parts political. The political compo- nent includes local government reform, rent reduction, and food, seed ...