Word: formosae
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...itself, is somehow a "lesson" which has taught Communists the folly of aggression. Said he: "It is clearly a part of the same calculated assault that the aggressor is simultaneously pressing in Indo-China and in Malaya, and of the strategic situation that manifestly embraces the island of Formosa and the Chinese Nationalist forces there." With the war thus redefined, his next step was easy...
...When Formosa was liberated from the Japanese occupation in 1945, I felt that the English language should be promoted . . . in order that our people could absorb Western culture and exchange ideas with American and European countries. I had five associates with similar ideas, and we organized under the name of the Formosan Magazine Press. Our first venture was a monthly magazine in English . . . But the economic fluctuations of those days in Formosa were too much for us, and we suspended publication after ten months...
...visited the library of the U.S. Information Service to read some American magazines and books, and suddenly got our inspiration; we would import American magazines to Formosa . . . We chose TIME, LIFE and Reader's Digest to begin with because these three magazines are the most widely read all over the world...
...island had been closed behind a kind of Iron Curtain by the Japanese ever since the Manchuria incident in 1931, so there were very few people with even a fair reading knowledge of English . . . By good luck we got an excellent American professor, Mr. W. Dorland, who came to Formosa from Peking. We opened a night English school and it was an immediate success, enrolling from 300 to 400 students per month. Our magazine sales began increasing rapidly...
...sale per month. TIME & LIFE are far in the lead. We have in six years increased our sales until now they stand at 3,500 copies of TIME and 5,000 copies of LIFE per month. That, we feel, is a real achievement for all of us here in Formosa...