Liuchiu Island, known locally as “Paradise on the Sea" (海上樂園), is an ethereal escape from the rigors of city life. Unlike Taiwan's other islands, Liuchiu Island was formed entirely of coral deposits. Since the Chinese pronunciation of the island is the same as Okinawa, Japan, locals call the island “Small Liuchiu” (小琉球 Hsiao Liuchiu).

The click-click-click of strappy stilettos has given way to the clomp-clomp-clomp of platforms and wedges on the Milan catwalk.

I was a boy in 1922 or 1923, when buses first started to run between the village and the town; there were tramps, casuals as they were called; the whole pattern of my boyhood was knit into a very loaded atmosphere of human character.

Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention