by svsauthor | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’d planned for the previous blog to be my last about Kinmen, but I then felt that I had not brought the story to a satisfying close. The anecdotes that I described in the previous five entries were all from a trip taken over twenty-five years ago. I returned to...
by svsauthor | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of the most memorable anecdotes from my 1993 trip to Kinmen was lunch of our second day. Members of our party were the guests of the chief administrator of Lesser Kinmen, the smaller of the two inhabited islands of the Kinmen group. Even though it is only a...
by svsauthor | Jan 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
The planned withdrawal of army personnel from Kinmen carried both positive and negative implications. On the plus side, martial law was being lifted. The local civilian population would have personal freedoms that they hadn’t experienced since the Communists expelled...
by svsauthor | Dec 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Even though my assignment in Kinmen was to assess the tourism potential of its natural areas, I could not help but be drawn in by the islands’ peculiar military features. In the previous blog, I mentioned several of the underground facilities – a warren of...
by svsauthor | Dec 22, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
In 1993, I joined a group of Taiwanese academics on a trip to the twin islands of Kinmen. One of our tasks was to make semi-formal presentations to a group of local residents to assure them that the economy of Kinmen would not collapse once most of the islands’...
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