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All 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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1050 BCE 1
Primary Language or Tradition
East and Southeast Asian 1
All East and Southeast Asian Literature
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Ba Jin

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Bao Ninh

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Bei Dao

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Cao Xueqin

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Confucius

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Ding Ling

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Eiji Yoshikawa

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Feng Menglong

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Francisco Balagtas

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Guan Hanqing

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Han Kang

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Haruki Murakami

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Hŏ Kyun

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Hwang Jini

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Ihara Saikaku

East and Southeast Asian Literature

José Rizal

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Junichiro Tanizaki

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Keigo Higashino

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Kenzaburō Ōe

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Kim Jin-myung

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Kim Man-jung

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Li Bai

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Liu Cixin

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Lu Xun

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Luo Guangbin

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Luo Guanzhong

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Mao Dun

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Matsuo Bashō

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Miyoshi Shoraku

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Mo Yan

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Murasaki Shikibu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Namiki Senryu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Natsume Sōseki

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Natsuo Kirino

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Nguyễn Du

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Ō no Yasumaro

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Okakura Kakuzo

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Qu Yuan

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Robert van Gulik

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Sayaka Murata

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Sei Shonagon

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Shi Nai'an

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Shi Yukun

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Shigeru Kayama

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Sima Qian

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Song Yu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Takeda Izumo II

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Tang Xianzu

East and Southeast Asian Literature
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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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