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Welcome to Plum Rain Press

Plum Rain Press is an independent publishing house focused on East Asia. Our books cover Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The founders are John Ross and Eryk Michael Smith, co-hosts of Taiwan’s leading history podcast, Formosa Files. The Plum Rain mission is to bring intelligent, entertaining fiction and non-fiction books about this fascinating region to the world.

Here are some of our upcoming 2024 releases…

A Tale of Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa

An English edition of an acclaimed Chinese-language novel by Dr. Chen Yao-Chang. This epic historical novel tells the story of Siraya, Dutch, and Chinese in the seventeenth century. 


Taiwan Escapes: Travels and Life in the Taiwanese Countryside
A collection of foreign accounts of traveling and living outside of Taiwan’s big cities.

The Cuttlefish

A hilarious novel set in the fictional country of Sukhan (located between Korea and Taiwan).

Formosa Files: The History of Taiwan

An introduction to the last four hundred years of the island’s history.

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