When I first joined Taiwan Panorama, the magazine was going through its third incarnation. The first, in 1981, was the expansion to more than 100 pages, while the second, in 2006, included a change of name from Sinorama to Taiwan Panorama. The third transformation includes aiming for a wider readership by optimizing our website and making our online version broadly accessible in the cloud, and launching editions in Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese, starting in December 2015.
Although our future directions inevitably include attracting younger readers and making more use of information technology, from an editor’s point of view, I still have in mind a rather old-fashioned sentiment expressed in a poem by Cheng Chou-yu: “Who will pass along this profession of poet? In the golden dusk I hang out a lamp.”
A magazine is like a lamp. Now 40, Taiwan Panorama will continue to shine its light on a new era.
