Strange Tales from Edo Fiction - Historical Berger traces recurring plotlines and

Berger traces recurring plotlines and imagery and discloses the works' multiple interrelationships as well as their cohesiveness around a central idea

Michael Morpurgo and Helen Stephens' classic Christmas story

Our daily lives were bound up with working the land

and cover the full range of design - from architecture to jewellery

and then some

Strange Tales from Edo Fiction - Historical Berger traces recurring plotlines andIn Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (16001868). Large scale analyses of the full historical and bibliographical record the first of their kind document in detail the wholesale importation of Chinese fiction, the market for imported books and domestic reprint editions, and the critical role of manuscript practices the ascendance of print culture