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Irene是一個在美國成長並受教育的台灣孩子。
回到台灣所看到的一切都是陌生而新奇的。但是她並不是以批評的態度來觀看醜陋的台北市,而是以詩人的細膩來發掘人文的情趣。
她以相機代筆,攝取那些足以使她感動的點點滴滴,跟著她的鏡頭所看到的是一個完全不同的台北。
誠然,如果沒有詩人的情懷,她的這本書會給你一種不易理解的挫折感。
可是只要沉下心來,你會體會到鏡頭下可以開拓的心靈境界,是一個出乎你想像之外的天地。
請你細細品嘗吧!~~漢寶德
感謝
Acknowledgements
I have so many people to thank, friends and family and teachers far and near who knowingly or unknowingly supported the creation of this book that this list cannot possibly be exhaustive and may contain terrible omissions.
Special thanks to Cheng and Amy Hsiao, Sunny Sun, Han Paoteh, Andrew Chen,
Helen Tu, Wendy Tsai, Wang Chiuhwa, Helen Chen, Steve and Christie Coffin, Joyce Cheng, Yael Vidan, Emily Sun, Suzanne Buffam, Chicu Reddy, Mira Reddy, Jing Hsiao, John Hsiao, Cynthia Kozin, Lee Ching-chun, Adam Hsu, Zhuang Yuanting, Katherine Alexander, Bethany Hull, Iping Su, Ewen Chiu, Chou Changning, Tzu-Ying Lee, Ronelson Yadao, Huiling Liu, Wanchun Ko, Muhan Chen, Wang Po-Nien, Amy Hou, Miruko Huang, Chiaching Hsu, Winson Wang, Leslie Kuo, Yi-Ping Yeh, Huang Gulu, Tzu-Chun Lin, Huang Hsu-hui, Miruko Huang, Winifred Haun, Kirstie Simson, Tamin Totzke, Eduardo Fukushima, Daniel Greenberg, Wolfgang Schwabe, Urs Schmidt-Ott, Richard Strier, Bradin Cormack, Alan Thomas, Karen Merikangas Darling, Rivi Handler-Spitz, Jenny Ludwig, Lauren Meadows, Sara Bencivenga, Giuseppina Malinverni, Julia Treindl, Janet Connor, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Karen Meyers, Julia Orell, Liu Chiung-Yun, Ling Chen, Anne-Lise Francois, Celeste Langan, Shadi Bartsch, Chuck Thurow, Louise LeBourgeois, Jenifer Viencek, Deirdre Hamill-Squiers, Sidney Nagel, Young-Kee Kim, Shirley Tsui, Grace Tsiang, Richard Payne, T.F. Liu, Sandra Macpherson, Cloud Gate Dance Theater, Cloud Gate II, WC Dance, and my students in Cross Cultural Studies and first year advanced General English.