The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction Medical imaging a girl must confront the

a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest—and the growing darkness in herself

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The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction Medical imaging a girl must confront theThe classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There is no work of Chinese fiction more important to both the development of early modern Japanese