Home›East and Southeast Asian Literature›All East and Southeast Asian LiteratureBrowse ByAll East and Southeast Asian LiteratureReference and ClassificationVerifiedLiterature 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.FactsAll East and Southeast Asian LiteratureSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1050 BCE 1Primary Language or TraditionWell-attestedEast and Southeast Asian 1All East and Southeast Asian LiteratureFilter Results62 entriesGenreAllBiography (1)Bunraku (1)Chronicle (1)Crime Fiction (2)Detective Fiction (1)Drama (6)Epic (1)Fantasy (2)Feminist Literature (1)Historical Drama (1)Historical Mystery (1)Kabuki (1)Lyric Poetry (1)Mystery Fiction (1)Nonfiction Prose (5)Poetry (14)Science Fiction (1)Short Fiction (6)The Novel (31)Universal History (1)Zuihitsu (1)Original LanguageAllClassical Chinese (2)English (5)German (1)Japanese (19)Korean (4)Mandarin Chinese (3)Romanian (1)Sinitic (17)Spanish (1)Tagalog (1)Vietnamese (2)NationalityAllChina (28)Japan (22)Joseon (1)Malaysia (1)Netherlands (1)Philippines (2)South Korea (4)Vietnam (2)Active EraAll-145 to -86 (1)-340 to -278 (1)-551 to -479 (1)1241 to 1320 (1)1283 to 1350 (1)1296 to 1372 (1)1500 to 1582 (1)1506 to 1544 (1)1550 to 1616 (1)1560 to 1637 (1)1569 to 1618 (1)1574 to 1646 (1)1637 to 1692 (1)1642 to 1693 (1)1644 to 1694 (1)1653 to 1725 (1)1695 to 1751 (1)1701 to 1754 (1)1710 to 1765 (1)1766 to 1820 (1)1788 to 1862 (1)1861 to 1896 (1)1863 to 1913 (1)1867 to 1916 (1)1881 to 1936 (1)1886 to 1965 (1)1892 to 1927 (1)1892 to 1962 (1)1896 to 1981 (1)1899 to 1972 (1)1904 to 1975 (1)1904 to 1986 (1)1904 to 2005 (1)1910 to 1967 (1)1925 to 1970 (1)1935 to 2023 (1)1958 to 2026 (1)701 to 762 (1)779 to 831 (1)966 to 1025 (1)973 to 1014 (1)978 to 1014 (1)MovementAllMisty Poetry (1)New Culture Movement (1)New Yuefu movement (1)Realism (1)Influenced ByAllBoris Pasternak (1)Federico García Lorca (1)Jean-Paul Sartre (1)Qu Yuan (1)William Faulkner (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Ba JinEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureBao NinhEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureBei DaoEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureCao XueqinEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureChikamatsu MonzaemonEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureConfuciusEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureDing LingEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureEiji YoshikawaEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureFeng MenglongEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureFrancisco BalagtasEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureGuan HanqingEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureHan KangEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureHaruki MurakamiEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureHŏ KyunEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureHwang JiniEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureIhara SaikakuEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureJosé RizalEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureJunichiro TanizakiEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureKeigo HigashinoEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureKenzaburō ŌeEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureKim Jin-myungEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureKim Man-jungEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureLi BaiEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureLiu CixinEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureLu XunEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureLuo GuangbinEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureLuo GuanzhongEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureMao DunEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureMatsuo BashōEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureMiyoshi ShorakuEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureMo YanEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureMurasaki ShikibuEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureNamiki SenryuEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureNatsume SōsekiEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureNatsuo KirinoEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureNguyễn DuEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureŌ no YasumaroEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureOkakura KakuzoEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureQu YuanEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureRobert van GulikEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureRyunosuke AkutagawaEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureSayaka MurataEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureSei ShonagonEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureShi Nai'anEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureShi YukunEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureShigeru KayamaEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureSima QianEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureSong YuEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureTakeda Izumo IIEast and Southeast Asian LiteratureTang XianzuEast and Southeast Asian Literature12Next →Sources1. Book of Documents (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaBook of Documents, modern-script chapters dating sentenceQuote, Book of Documents, modern-script chapters dating sentenceSome 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.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.