This issue has a particularly large number of overseas reports.
Two groups of Sinorama reporters recently went to the U.S. May is the pleasantest month in Washington, D.C., and the time when Twin Oaks is loveliest. The reopening of Twin Oaks and the progress in Sino-American relations achieved by ROC Representative to the U.S. Fredrick Chien are subjects of concern to everyone and the focus of this month's cover story.
July 4th is the occasion for a long weekend in the U.S., a weekend which some 1,300 Chinese sacrificed to attend the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Convention in Houston and make suggestions for the ROC's national development. We've brought back a lively, on-scene report.
Time, Newsweek, and other major news organs in the U.S. have recently reported on two celebrated Chinese: Paul C. W. Chu and Nien Cheng. Sinorama's face-to-face interviews with them in Houston and Washington are carried as the first reports in a new series on "Chinese in the Spotlight."
"The Walled City of Kowloon" concludes our series on Hong Kong, but our overseas reports will continue with future articles on Chinese society in the U.S.
For a Sinorama editor, one of the most exciting aspects of going overseas for a report is the chance to meet with our readers. In addition to overseas Chinese, we also met the co-pilot of a small 16-passenger plane we were taking to Washington who was excited to find out we were from Sinorama. He told us that his father had just returned from the the Lions Club convention in Taipei and said, "Taiwan's great!"