Words from an Old Reader
Dear Editor:
Thank you very much for sending me the wonderful remembrance gift!
We will keep this precious Sinorama Honored Reader Certificate, gift box, Favorite Love Songs cassette, Chinoiserie postcards and so on as heirlooms in my family forever, and show them off to our local Chinese compatriots. As long as I live I will always be a faithful Sinorama reader.
As long as I have been living overseas I have taken great pleasure in recommending Sinorama magazine to more than 200 of my old students who now live all over Taiwan, to old friends in places such as Japan, Hong Kong and Miami, and to fellow Chinese living here in the Peoria area.
I have framed my Sinorama certificate and hung it next to my certificate from Taiwan for "40 Years' Service to Education," and my "New Citizenship" certificate from the current US president, to bring honor to my humble abode. I will always remember and be thankful for the unstinting efforts of all of you back in the home country in producing Sinorama.
I am grateful for the kind words received from your Japanese-language editors Ms. Yukina Yamaguchi and Ms. Shila Shih. Please give them my best regards.
An old educationalist 15 years overseas
Lin Pao-neng (Hakka), USA
Editor's reply: Our search for long-standing readers to whom to send gifts and certificates to mark Sinorama's 20th anniversary is now over, and all the gifts and certificates have been sent out. Recently we have received many thank-you letters from old readers, and this is the best encouragement for everyone working at Sinorama. We have specially chosen Mr. Lin Pao-neng's letter as the most representative, and we wish to take this opportunity to thank all our old readers.
Contributors Based Abroad?
Dear Editor:
I've been a Sinorama subscriber for 12 years, and I'm happy to see that the magazine keeps improving. Out of affection for the magazine, I have a small suggestion to make. In order to lengthen Sinorama's tentacles, and to expand the breadth of knowledge of your readers, why don't you hire special contributors around the world, who could file reports providing in-depth analysis about events in their region. They could be paid based on how much of their work you published. This would both provide an endless source of new topics and enable the magazine to find suitable freelancers to make interviews and reports on its behalf when the need arose. It would add greater variety and allow you to report on important foreign news in a more timely fashion. Sinorama could thus be an even greater and more diverse publication.
Stacey Chou, USA
Editor's reply: We will discuss this suggestion in our editors' meeting, and are actively considering the possibility of using freelancers based abroad.