Any time we get to add a new translation from Andrea Falk, we celebrate. Her work is always thoughtful and firmly based, and one never gets the feeling that the translation is machine-generated (because it isn’t)! Now, about the book, The Tiger Crane Form: Chinese -English Edition of Lin Shirong’s book, revised by Zhu Yuqi. […]
Aug
23
2026
23
2026
Aug
26
2023
26
2023
The Dao of Shipping
Daoist writings (and I liberally paraphrase here) teach us that ‘Nature is not kind.’ This does not mean that Nature is unkind; more like Nature is not a Disney movie. At Plum, we recognize a variation of this wisdom: ‘The post office is not kind.’ In all honesty, the vast majority of what we send […]
Dec
24
2022
24
2022
Boxing Day Sale at Plum!
Here it is! Our Second Annual Boxing Day sale at Plum. OK, we know Boxing Day does not refer to the boxing (拳, Quan) we practice as martial artists. But the name so perfectly lends itself to our purposes, that we borrow it to create a Boxing Day Sale (节礼日特卖, Jiélǐ rì tèmài) for martial […]
May
29
2020
29
2020
Restocks!
Happy to report the return of three unlikely roommates today. Click each image for more information and to purchase.