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    "updatedAt": "2026-10-24",
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    "body": "## Scope\n\nVernacular writing has a longer history than the twentieth century. Modern literary reform gave it new prominence.\n\n## Examples\n\n[[work_diary|A Madman's Diary]] and [[work_changshi|Changshi Ji]] illustrate different genres.",
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