Michael Turton recently noted that the ashes of Homer Lea are interred in Taipei’s Beitou District. Lea was an all-around colorful character and an adviser to Sun Yat-sen. He was also the author of a pretty awful melodramatic novel, The Vermilion Pencil; a Romance of China (1908). Here’s a selection. Enjoy! The Bay of Tai Wan, […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
We’re very happy to be able to publish a new and improved version of Through Formosa, a fascinating look at Taiwan during the Japanese era. Besides a beautifully formatted edition of the original book, there is also an excellent introduction bringing the time and place to life, and copious notes for the modern reader explaining […]
James Cahill, a towering figure in the study of Chinese art, died last Friday at the age of 87. Cahill was especially generous in sharing his work online. For example, his lecture series on “A Pure and Remote View: Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting” is available in full in video form on YouTube. Here’s part […]
After a year of planning and work, it’s a real privilege to be able to take the website live, and say that we’re officially launched. We’ve got some great books already available, and many more exciting titles in the pipeline. We’ve had a few last-minute issues with a couple of our titles, meaning that Through […]