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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... provinces . Hou Jing occupies Jiankang , the Liang capital . 550 : The Northern Qi state evolves out of the Eastern Wei . 550-560 : Nomadic Turkish tribes assert loose control over a vast empire of Inner Asia stretching from Manchuria ...
... provinces of the central Yangtze and Sichuan to the west. 581: A scion of the part-nomad Yang family (descendants of the Six Garrisons rebels), whose home base is the region between the ancient capitals of Luoyang and Chang'an overturns ...
... provinces - the whole of eastern China south of the Yangtze- quickly fall to the Sui . China is whole again for the first time in three hundred years . 589-591 : With a view to the smooth restora- tion of the empire , the Sui impose an ...
... province. 820: Palace eunuchs murder Emperor Xian- zong; Muzong ascends the throne. He will reign until 824. 824–826 ... provinces as he moves northward toward the capital. 881: Huang Chao's army of 600,000 seizes Chang'an, sacks it, and ...
... province and in Chang'an and be- comes the effective ruler of the capital . 904 : Zhu Wen murders the emperor ; Aizong ... provinces in west cen- tral China . 907-936 : The Khitan people launch inter- mittent raids from Mongolia across ...