Timelines
of Asia:
Literary & Cultural
History
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India
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China
Introduction
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Japan
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| BCE |
India
Timeline 1
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China
Timeline 1
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Japan
Timeline 1
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| ca. 2000 |
Harappan
Civilization
2600-1900 BCE |
Mythological
Gods
&
Heroes
Xia
Dynasty
ca. 2200-1500 BCE |
Jomon
Culture
ca. 2000 BCE
Japanese
Language
& Oral Tradition
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Aryans &
the Vedic Age
1500-500 BCE
Sanskrit
& the Vedas
Ramayana &
Mahabharata
Upanishads
Buddhism |
Shang Dynasty
1750
–1040/1027 BCE
Chinese
Writing |
| ca. 1000 |
Zhou
Dynasty
1020 - 221 BCE
Classic
of Poetry
The
Five Classics |
| |
| 5th c. |
Chinese
Philosophy
Warring States
403-221 BCE
Classical
Prose |
| 4th c. |
Buddhist
Jatakas
Mauryan Empire
321-184 BCE
Bhagavad
Gita
The
Pankrits |
China
Timeline 2
|
| 3rd c. |
Qin
Dynasty
221-202 BCE |
| 2nd c. |
Han
Dynasty
206 BCE - CE 200
Early
Han Orature
& Literature
Han
Confucian Classics
& Historiography |
| 1st c. |
Tamil
Literature |
Yayoi
Culture
1st c. BCE
Shinto |
| CE |
So.
Indian Kingdoms
of Cholas, Cheras,
& Pandavas |
| 3rd c. |
Uji
Tomb Culture
CE 3rd c.
Chinese
Writing
Introduced |
| 4th c. |
Gupta
Empire
CE 320 -535
Hindu
Renaissance |
Time of Troubles
& New Religions
CE 220 – 589
Taoism
& Buddhism
Sui
Dynasty
CE 589-618 |
| 5th c. |
| 6th c. |
Taika
Period
CE 552-710
Buddhism
Introduced |
Emergence
of Hindi
& Devanagari script |
China
Timeline 3
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| 7th c. |
India
Timeline 2
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Tang
Dynasty
CE 618 - 907
Empress
Wu
Tang
Literature
& Old Style Prose
Popular
Fiction &
Drama |
| 8th c. |
|
Nara
Period
CE 710-784
Nara
Literature
Nihon
Shoki
Manyo-shu |
| |
Heian
Period
CE 794-1160
Heian
Literature
& Kana
Tale
of Genji |
| 9th c. |
Muslim Invasions
9th
- 12th c
Islam
Gita
Govinda
Vernacular
Literatures |
| |
Song
Dynasty
947 - 1127
NeoConfucian
&
New Prose Styles
Performance
Story-Telling |
| 12th c. |
Japan
Timeline 2
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Kamakura Period
1185 - 1333
Bushido
& Samurai Code
Modern
Japanese
Kamakura
Poetry
Heike
Monogatari |
| 13th c. |
Sultanate of Dehli
13th - 15th
c. |
Yuan
Dynasty
1279 – 1368
Yuan
Fiction & Drama |
| 14th c. |
Ming
Dynasty
1368 – 1644/1662
Chinese
Novels &
the Book Trade
Chinese
Calendar |
Muromachi Period
1333 - 1568
Renga
(Linked Verse)
Noh
Theater
Zen
Buddhism |
| 15th c. |
Mughal Empire
15th - 17th
c.
Bhakti
Literature
Urdu |
| 16th c. |
Momoyama
Period
1568 – 1600 |
| 17th c. |
India
Timeline 3
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China
Timeline 4
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Japan
Timeline 3
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European
Colonialism
& the
British Raj
17th - mid-19th c.
Maratha Empire
Urdu
Literature
Western
interest in
Bhagavad Gita &
Sanskrit
grammar |
Qing
Dynasty
1662 - 1912
Qing
Fiction
&
Dream of the
Red
Chamber
Beijing
Opera
Clashes
with the West
After 1750
New
Literary
Movements |
Tokugawa
(Edo) Period
1600 -1868
Genroku
Period Arts
Kabuki & Ukiyoe
Haiku |
| 18th c. |
19th c.
to early
20th c. |
Indian
Mutiny
of
1857 |
Anti-Colonialism
later 19th c.
Rabindranath
Tagore |
Meiji
Reform Era
1868 - 1912
Modern
Language
& Meiji
Literature |
Pre-WWII
20th c. |
India
Timeline 4
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China
Timeline 5
|
Taisho
Period
1912 - 1926
Taisho
Era Writers |
Indian
Independence
Movements
1914 - 1947
Mohandas
Gandhi |
Republican
Era
& Civil War
1912 - 1949
Luxun Lu Hsun |
Showa
Period
1926 to WWII
1930s
Literature |
Post-WWII
20th c. |
Partitioning
of India
& Pakistan - 1947
Cracking
India
Post-Independence
India & Pakistan
1947 - Present
Indian
film
New
writers |
People's
Republic
of China
1949 - Present
Cultural
Revolution
Beijing
Opera
Recent
Literature
To
Live |
Japan
Timeline 4
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Post-WWII
Period
1945 - Present
Post-WWII
Literature
Cross-Cultural
Literatures
& Film
A
Pale View of Hills
Rhapsody
in August |
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India
Timeline
Sources
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China
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Sources
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Japan
Timeline
Sources
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