Dear Editor:
It's risshuu (onset of autumn) now in the Japanese seasonal cycle. How are things in your country?
There is quite a bit of blank space in Sinorama, I've noticed. An effective use of blank space is very important in layout and requires a considerable amount of thought. It is truly no simple task. I greatly admire your sensitivity to layout design and your methods in utilizing a large format.
Also, the use of traditional characters gives me the feeling of reading real "writing." The simplified characters on the mainland seem to be used without regard to the words' original meaning. Under communism, even Chinese characters are considered a defect of the old system, which is really sad.
Finally, compared with all the excellent photographs, there don't seem to be many charts and tables. Charts and tables can illustrate the contents of articles and help the reader to understand them more easily. How do you feel about this, I wonder?
I hope your magazine will continue to develop in the future.
Mizoguchi Hiroyuki
Japan
Dear Editor:
I'm a music lover who regularly reads your "Song of the Month" feature and has learned a lot about the pop music scene on Taiwan lately that way. Besides playing and singing the songs according to the notation, I'd like to hear how the original singers interpret them, so I'm writing to take part in your drawing. I'd also like to ask a couple of questions:
1) If I don't win this time, can my entry be carried over for inclusion in the next one?
2) I'd like to mail order some cassettes or CDs from Taiwan. Can you help me buy them?
Ch'en Ping-i
Argentina
Editor's Note:
1) Because of the volume of entries that have come in, entries are restricted to the drawing for that month only.
2) We have no purchasing service, but overseas readers who would like to buy cassettes or CDs from Taiwan may write to us for catalogues from the recording companies involved and then buy directly from them.
Dear Editor:
I'm an overseas Chinese living in Mexico. I've seen overseas reports in several issues of your magazine recently from New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Europe, but you seem to have forgotten Central and South America. I very much hope you can come here for a look, too. I can provide you with some information for reference in your reports if you need it.
Lin Tzung-p'ing
Mexico
Editor's Note:
Sinorama plans to send a reporting team to Central and South America, and Mexico may be one of the areas we visit. If you have any materials concerning the early history of Chinese immigration, outstanding overseas Chinese there, or anything else you think is worth sharing with Chinese people around the world, please send them to us. And thanks for your letter.