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East and Southeast Asian Literature

Literature of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Belongs here: the classical Japanese court and haiku tradition, the great Chinese vernacular novelists, modern Japanese fiction from the Meiji era on, and the Korean and Vietnamese narrative tradition. Does not belong here: a South or Southeast Asian author from the Indian subcontinent, kept under South Asian literature instead.

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Era of Emergence
1050 BCE 1
Primary Language or Tradition
East and Southeast Asian 1
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1. Book of Documents (Wikipedia)
WikipediaBook of Documents, modern-script chapters dating sentence
Quote, Book of Documents, modern-script chapters dating sentence
Some of its modern-script chapters are among the earliest examples of Chinese prose, recording speeches from the early years of the Zhou dynasty in the late 11th century BC.
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