East Asian Literature

This continent boasts of having given birth to the oldest human civilizations.

Known as “cradle of civilization"

One of the oldest existing literary writings

• Chinese Literature

• Japanese Literature

• Korean Literature

Used language consisting of script or characters that stands for ideas

• Chinese Literature

• Japanese Literature

• Korean Literature

Considered as one of the major literary writings in the world

• Chinese Literature

• Japanese Literature

• Korean Literature

Had NO writing system until it developed its own based on borrowed and modified Chinese characters or script

• Chinese Literature

• Japanese Literature

• Korean Literature

Developed under the shadow of Chinese literature

• Chinese Literature

• Japanese Literature

• Korean Literature

The first writing had not been effectively preserved because their scribes' early literary works were inscribed on stones, tombs, and bamboo.

• Chinese Literature

• Japanese Literature

• Korean Literature

winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature

• Kenzaburo Oe

• Ishiguro Kazuo

• Haruki Murakami

• Mishima Yukio

• Tanizaki Jun’ ichiro

was acknowledged to be the first I-novelist.

• Kenzaburo Oe

• Ishiguro Kazuo

• Haruki Murakami

• Naoya Shiga

• Tanizaki Jun’ ichiro