Books and Boats
Osamu, Oba / Fogel, Joshua A![Books and Boats](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/273/27353362/CHSBZCOP0327353362.jpg)
This volume looks in detail at trade between the Qing dynasty and the Edo shogunate primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While touching on all manner of items traded, from where, to where, and the like, Oba Osamu particularly focuses on the importation of Chinese books to Japan. This entails a detailed discussion and analysis of the censorship procedures for detecting works with any sort of Christian content--strictly forbidd...