Dear Editor:

I am an average youth from mainland China who happened to pick up a copy of Sinorama one day at a friend's house. The excellent print quality and refreshingly down-to-earth style of the magazine left a very favorable impression, but more important it gave us a strong feeling for that beautiful island where there is another population of real Chinese people working hard for their living and learning about life. We also found many familiar names in its pages, like Wang Chieh, Chang Hung-liang, Lin Yi-lian and so on.

As one in his twenties, Taiwan was for a long time an unknown place to me. Then out of the blue Taiwanese pop stars became a part of our lives, followed by a tide of visitors from Taiwan. And now comes your publication. Something I would like to say is that with the opening of communication across the Taiwan strait, we have found that today's Taiwan is completely different from that version of it that we used to know through the media, though more than that I cannot say.

Myself and my friends all like Sinorama very much, but for any number of reasons we are not able to buy it here, so we can only write and ask you if it would be possible to send across some complimentary copies.

Wang Pin Shensi Province

Editor's Note: We are currently promoting a program of subscriptions for relatives and friends on the mainland. Additionally, three months ago we began sending Sinorama to libraries on the Mainland, which we hope will make it easier for our readers there to see the magazine.

Dear Editor:

First let me thank you. In more than two years as an overseas student in Australia, Sinorama has been like a girlfriend to me, and my affection for "her" gets ever stronger.

Each time I enter the state library I head straight for the shelves holding Sinorama, and I have seen all the issues published since 1983. I read any articles on Chinese culture avidly, though I soon lose myself in worry and concern. The thought of what the Communists have done in China during the last forty years makes me especially sad. When will the sleeping lion that is China awake?

Fortunately there is still Taiwan, a lucky island that gives hope for all Chinese.

I often recommend friends to read the Sinoramas in the state library. Could you send me a copy or two, so that I can introduce them directly to friends and acquaintances?

Chen Shao-ping Australia

Dear Editor:

I shoud like to thank Miss Yang Shu-chun of the Voice of Free China for sending me the Sinorama issue with the readers' survey question-naire in it, which I was thus able to answer and submit.

There are some opinions I have regarding Sinorama that I wish to mention. Firstly, I hope that you can include some excerpts from Chinese publications abroad among your reprintings of selected articles. Secondly, the quality of paper that you use is good, but the magazine cover does have a tendency to roll back and not flatten out. Thirdly, the books that you publish from the magazine, while highly readable, are rather expensive. It would be a good idea to lower the price if you can. What may seem like a reasonable price in one of Asia's "four little dragons," could well be a heavy cost to people elsewhere in South-East Asia, with the exception of Singapore.

Li Po-chin Malaysia

Dear Editor:

I was lucky enough to be twice among the prizewinners in the list that you published with your last issue, with the winning numbers 70021522 and 70021528. I look forward to receiving the prizes. I take this opportunity of writing to express my thanks for your service to your readers.

Also, I have received your notification of the July price rise. I am sure Sinorama will continue to supply its readers with excellent coverage, for in the fourteen years that I have known the magazine it has become increasingly widely known, and I feel I have myself grown up with it. I like it very much.

Li Hsiao-ying