Camphor Press

An image of the cover of Kondo the Barbarian, along with the quote "a great service to the fields of Japanese and Taiwanese history, modern colonialism and global indigeneity"

Paul Barclay has performed "a great service to the fields of Japanese and Taiwanese history, modern colonialism and global indigeneity". Kondo the Barbarian offers "insight into factors underlying the Musha Incident but also much more: a textured and ambivalent first-hand account."

A list of books: The Hell Screens, India Be Damned, Inhospitable, In Limpid Dream, Insidious Power, In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls, A Japanese Robinson Crusoe John Hedley in North China & Inner Mongolia, 1897-1912, Journey to the End of the Empire, Kazakhstan, A Korean Odyssey, The Korean Presidents, The Korea Story, Kyoto, The Last Bowl of Tea, Late Qing China and Meiji Japan, Lights! Camera! Kaishi!, Living Dangerously in Korea, Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy, Lord of Formosa, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Her China, Migrante

Tidying up the metadata for each of our books as part of shifting some production to a new printer and damn, the breadth and depth of the books we've done over the past decade.

Getting Camphor Press reengaged with the world after a hiatus and I see Bluesky is gaining momentum. So here we are! Hoping for something akin to the Twitter of old, looking forward to learning from the smart people on here.