Dear Editor:

How are you? I would like to congratulate you and thank you for publishing such a beautiful 1991 appointment diary. The contents introducing Taiwan's architecture are really exhaustive. Along with the 1989 and 1990 appointment diaries of Taiwan's scenery and rare plants and animals, this will become a collector's item for all of us abroad.

I would like your help. Could you please state the location of the buildings on each page, so that we can visit them when returning to Taiwan. For example, everybody knows about Fort Provintia and Fort San Domingo (January), but I don't know where the Chin Kuang Fu house (February) is located. I would greatly appreciate it if you could clarify the locations of this and other buildings shown.

Hsu Chin-jen, Holland

Editor's note:

Sinorama will reply in a separate letter. If there is an opportunity in the future, we will have detailed reports.

Dear Editor:

In the half past year, my wife and I have moved to the US to take a new position, and live in New Jersey. We have discovered that many friends are Sinorama subscribers. Every time you ask to borrow one, even if it's an old issue, they seem as reluctant as parents of a new bride to let it go, and often tell you to return it by a specific day. So I subscribed myself. Now every month when the magazine arrives, our house becomes the meeting place for nearby friends and neighbors. Through Sinorama we have become familiar with all the neighbors, and that's really a great feeling!

As for the photo essay on Taiwan's architecture last issue, I have a small addition. In the photo of Fort San Domingo, the national flag is not entirely visible, which is quite regrettable. Although it's already hundreds of years ago, it's only been a few decades that sovereignty over the fort has returned to the hands of our government.

The recent incident between China and Japan over the Tiaoyutai Islands has raised quite a sentiment of protests in the Chinese community here. No one likes to see his national territory occupied, especially Chinese, who've had our fill of being occupied. I hope that the country can stand firmly on the international stage, and that all the world will acknowledge the flag of blue sky, white sun, and red earth.

Chen Wen-fong, United States

Dear Editor:

After reading the article "Liu Yen-ming: Protecting Nature Through His Camera" in Sinorama's last issue, I can hardly quench the feeling stirred in my heart. Being an amateur photographer who is interested in ecological photography, I am well aware of the difficulty in taking those pictures. So I hold Mr. Kiu in high regard.

It's also obvious that you took a great effort in this report. The photo on page 39 reveals the labor the photographer has gone through in order to offer the reader a "visual feast."

I hope that you will keep on this kind of reportage to kindle people's concern towards Nature.

Chu Chin Nantou

Dear Editor:

Last issue's cover story "The New 'Country Dwellers'" moved me a great deal. As an inhabitant of Taipei, I have a strong feeling to follow their steps--being a new country dweller.

Yang Su-Huei Taipei