Timelines of Asia TOC: India, China, Japan

Timelines of Asia: Literary & Cultural History
	India	China Introduction	Japan
BCE	India Timeline 1	China Timeline 1	Japan Timeline 1
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
	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
7th c.	India Timeline 2	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
			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	China Timeline 4	Japan Timeline 3
	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	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
			Post-WWII Period 1945 - Present Post-WWII Literature Cross-Cultural Literatures & Film A Pale View of Hills Rhapsody in August
	India Timeline Sources	China Timeline Sources	Japan Timeline Sources

Asian Timelines were prepared by Cora Agatucci, in 1998.
They are slowly being updated. Please bear with me.

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Humanities 210 MIC/WIC- Cora Agatucci Cultures & Literatures of Asia

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Cultures & Literatures of Asia