Is there a distinct lack of non official documents in East Asia or have we just not translated them into english yet?
When looking back at Roman stuff you find letters, personal concordances and other stuff of that sort. When I read about Chinese history there's a distinct lack of that despite several of these histories saying that the Chinese were printing tens of thousands of books per year at around the Tang dynasty.
Probably most destroyed by the occasional dynastic purge or communism.
More people died in East Asia during the time between 0 AD and 1600. That might have something to do with it. Plus there's no one language in China.
>>1074969
Most printed matter in China was reserved for official records, histories, and novels & literary works.
Normie plebs don't go printing their shit due to how fucking expensive printing is in East Asia.
That said: yes there are. Most are untranslated, because E. Asian cunts don't really think foreigners would be interested in mundane shit.
A good example of non-official Chinese records are Zupu (Clan Registers.) Basically some close knit clans in China has a great fat book in a village which records the names of every child born in that clan, and some pages dedicated to the lifestory of prominent members
The grandest Zupu belong to Imperial clans with surnames like Zhu, Li, or Liu. The Li family alone has an encyclopedia listing the names of shitloads of people born into that clan.
Most Zupus are privately owned, though Imperial ones are in Museums.
>>1074969
One of the earliest written evidences that the Chinese used paper for wiping shit was from a personal diary.
>"Paper on which there are quotations or commentaries from the Five Classics or the names of sages, I dare not use for toilet purposes". - Yan Zhitui (500's AD)
Revealed to Scholars that the first toilet papers were scrap paper the Chinese have lying around. Eventually by the Yuan Dynasty, there was dedicated crapping paper.
>>1074969
> I am a fat anglo fuck who can only read one language
>>1075190
None of the Asian languages are really major second languages outside diaspora.
>>1075000
There's no Asian study department somewhere that's actively trying to translate these documents?
>>1077188
There are both ib East Asia and the west (Brits in particular). But theres just so many of them.
Not to.mention in Chinas case archaeology just started in the late 70s there
