History

East Asia

Documents

• Noble Eightfold Path (ca. 528 BCE)
• Analects of Confucius (ca. 479–249 BCE)
• Mandate of Heaven (ca. 475–221 BCE)
• Canon of Filial Piety (ca. 300–239 BCE)
• Dao De Jing (ca. 300–200 BCE)
• Han Feizi (ca. 230 BCE)
• Book of Rites (ca 200–100 BCE)
• Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron (74–49 BCE)
• Ban Gu: “Treatise on Food and Money” (ca. 60-90)
• Ban Zhao: Lessons for a Woman (ca. 80)
• Wang Bi: “Outline Introduction to the Laozi” (ca. 245)
• Daoist Meditations (364–370)
• Sun Tzu: The Art of War (ca. 500 BCE)
• Yan Zhitui: Family Instructions for the Yen Clan (ca. 560–590)
• Yao Zui: “Continued Classifications of Painters” (ca. 575-600?)
• Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution (604)
• New Year’s Day Taika Reform Edict (646)
• Nihongi (720)
• “The Song of Lasting Regret” (807)
• Han Yu: “Memorial on the Buddha’s Bones” (819)
• Yengishiki (927)
• Wang Kon: Ten Injunctions (943)
• Ouyang Xiu: “On the Partisanship of Friends” (1044)
• “When Heirs Have Already Been Installed, They Ought Not to Be Displaced” (ca. 1127–1279)
• Great Yasa of Genghis Khan (1200s–1400s)
• Cai Kang: “Forging of Official Documents” (ca. 1230-1270)
• Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou (1298)
• Zheng He: Inscription to the Goddess the Celestial Spouse (1431)
• Matteo Ricci: “Religious Sects among the Chinese” (1615)
• Japan's Closed Country Edict (1635)
• Hakuin Ekaku: “Song of Meditation” (ca. 1718)
• “Manslaughter over an Outhouse” (1722)
• Cao Xueqin and Gao E: The Story of the Stone (ca. 1750–1792)
• Qianlong: Letter to George III (1793)
• Lin Zexu: “Moral Advice to Queen Victoria” (1839)
• Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
• Meiji Constitution of Japan (1889)
• Emperor Guangxu: Abolition of the Examination System (1898)
• Boxer Protocol (1901)
• Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication (1912)
• Korean Declaration of Independence (1919)
• Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Principles of the People” (1921)
• General Outline of Measures for the Reorganization of Japan (1923)
• Mao Zedong: “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan” (1927)
• Japan's Fourteen-part Message (1941)
• Chiang Kai-Shek: Speech before the Preparatory Commission for Constitutional Government in Chungking (1945)
• Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)
• Emperor Hirohito: Imperial Rescript on Surrender of Japan (1945)
• Kim Il-sung: “On the Establishment of the Workers’ Party of North Korea” (1946)
• Constitution of Japan (1947)
• "Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause" (1966)
• Constitution of the People’s Republic of China (1982)