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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... Muslim calen- dar, and so forth. But because this work is clearly aimed at readers and students in the Western world and because its language, English, will mean that it is used by those already familiar with that Western outlook, we ...
... Muslim Ahmad. Chinese sources stigmatize Ahmad as the first of the three “villainous ministers.” May 1285: Ahmad's successor, Lu Shijung, the second of the ministerial villains, is ar- rested and later executed. His successor is Sangha ...
... Muslim advisors; Chi- nese officials will have scant influence dur- ing his reign. August 15, 1328: Taiding's death touches off the most violent succession struggle of the Yuan dynasty. October 1328: With the ascension of Taid- ing's ...
... Muslim eunuch Zheng He leads a series of far-ranging overseas expedi- tions. The first three voyages are to India; the fourth reaches Hormuz on the Persian Gulf; and the last three touch on the coast of East Africa. Diplomacy ...
... Muslim region of mod- ern Xinjiang province . 1751-1784 : Qianlong takes six expensive tours in the southern domains . He is said to spend more than 20 million ounces of silver during his peregrinations of 1751 , 1757 , 1762 , 1765 ...