尚書

Also known as: Shūjīng; Book of Documents

Author

Confucius

Language

Archaic Chinese

Year

c. 6th-1st century BC

Country

China

Genre

Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

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The Book of Documents or the Classic of History, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over two millennia.