Dongnan jiwen 東南紀聞

Dongnan jiwen 東南紀聞 "Records of hearsay from the Southeast" is an anonymous "brush-notes"-style collection (biji 筆記) written in the late 13th century, as can be seen from the content of the book. The transmitted version is a copy of what has been quoted of this book in the Ming-period 明 (1368-1644) encyclopaedia Yongle dadian 永樂大典.

The 3-juan-long text includes 84 stories about the history of the Southern Song dynasty 南宋 (1127-1279) that ruled over southeastern China, hence the title of the book.

The scholar Yu Jiaxi 余嘉錫 (1884-1955; Siku tiyao bianzheng 四庫提要辨證) thinks that the Dongnan jiwen was nothing else than a collection of stories recorded in books like Tingshi 桯史 or Duxing zazhi 獨醒雜誌, and not a new text.

The Dongnan jiwen is to be found in the series Siku quanshu 四庫全書, Mohai jinhu 墨海金壺 and Shoushange congshu 守山閣叢書.