By the turn of the century he was starting to become well known in literary circles.

He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.

What had once been a bathroom with a toilet was now a scrungy looking tiled room with a hole in the floor where the toilet was missing, and a shower that had neither knobs nor faucet but which contained a pile of ashes […]

At the foot of these mountains, there are active hydrothermal vents such as Beitou, Siao-you-keng, Matsao, and Da-you-keng, indicating that the TVG has potentially active heat and/or magmatic sources below the surface (Yang et al. 1999, 2003; Lee et al. 2005; Ohba et al. 2010; Liu et al. 2011; Ohsawa et al. 2013). In addition, hot springs are also present in the limited area of the coastal strip of the Chinshan District.