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In this special episode, we talk about where the inspiration for the Formosa Files podcast came from, and share an excerpt from the podcast's origin source: John Ross' 2020 book "Taiwan in 100 Books." After our quick chat, enjoy a segment from chapter one of the audiobook of "Taiwan in 100 Books" read by Eryk
Cover image: The book jackets of two editions of "Secret Fighting Arts of the World," which -- in the cover on the right -- the Boston Globe hails as "The world's most secretly guarded fighting techniques."
--Um...hopefully that newspaper's fact-checking department has improved since then.
Below: The cover of John Ross' "Taiwan in 100 Books" (2020) -- this book spawned the Formosa Files podcast
Book available HERE and HERE -- audiobook available HERE
Below: Another martial arts book by John F. Gilby -- this book is mostly factual :)
LINKS TO GILBY'S BOOKS -- here
Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became was famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
