Just a reminder that T.C. Locke (aka Poagao) has written an excellent book on his time in the military here. The paperback is now available for pre-order through our website, priced at $13.99 with free delivery if you order your copy before March 15. Books will ship at the end of March.
You did! Weâve had strong interest during the pre-order period, and I want to thank everyone for their orders. Thereâs going to be a lot of parcels going out at the end of the month.
Hi, sorry for the long delay. Itâs our first print book, and frankly we underestimated the time things would take at every stage of the process.
The books were shipped yesterday, so customers in Taiwan should receive their copies today or tomorrow. Overseas orders will take a little longer, but they have all gone out now, so it wonât be long. Hope you enjoy it!
Itâs coming up on four years since we launched, and weâre now up to 72 titles, including 18 about Taiwan. 2017 was a very good year for us, with the acquisition of EastBridge (now our Eastbridge Books imprint) spreading our range into academic texts and literary translations from Japan and Korea in addition to Taiwan and China. If you havenât had a look for a while you might find some books of interest on our site.
Reviving this thread to draw attention to a new Camphor Press publication: an English translation, vividly annotated by noted historian Paul Barclay (of Outcasts of Empire fame) of Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwanâs Bloodiest Uprising, the memoirs of Katsusaburo Kondo. Forumosans interested in the Seediq uprising, Japanese colonial discourse, and all the strangeness of those times can get a glimpse of it in this fine review by Jonathan Clements: