A Word About Where to Buy the Traditional Chinese Edition of Confucian Sage

There were two publishing formats for the physical editions of Confucian Sage: one was the simplified Chinese edition published in the mainland, and the other was the traditional Chinese edition published in Taiwan.

The ISBN for the simplified Chinese edition had been approved, but I had no idea when it would officially be published. I was confused too, so I would not talk about it for now.

You readers all knew that I, Lao Huo, was rather lazy, but the editor at the traditional Chinese publisher said I should make an announcement, so I was cooperating and doing so.

The traditional Chinese publishing rights belonged to Taiwan's Novel Channel publishing house. To cater to the market over there, the title had been forced to change to Path to Sainthood. Since the two sides of the strait were separated and buying things was rather troublesome, you had to contact the publisher's customer service QQ to make a purchase. (I was afraid QQ would get blocked.)

The publisher's customer service QQ was: . You could ask about buying Path to Sainthood. There were two payment methods, Alipay and PayPal, and the books would be mailed from Taiwan.

However, I had to explain a few things beforehand.

1. The books were in traditional Chinese characters and printed vertically, so mainland readers would definitely face some difficulty reading them. I found the sample copy quite interesting, but it was tiring to read. I had not expected Hanyu Pinyin to be printed on the cover as well.

2. Books from across the strait were expensive—170 Taiwan dollars per volume, equivalent to over 30 RMB each—and each volume contained only sixty thousand characters. More than twenty volumes had been released so far.

3. We were close, so I would say something that might offend the publisher's