[1894 April] 5 (2/30). Shao Youlian sends in a memorial announcing completion of work on the Taiwan railway from Taibei to Xinzhu.

When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained way up.

A foreground of lushy meadow-grass, intersected by a streamlet, the light of an afternoon-sun glistening amid the foliage, which occupies two-thirds of the background; […]

A tall island in the sea, a geologic bone, the sea stack represents rock harder than what once surrounded it and has been eroded away. … The sea stack—which in desert country might be called a chimney, pinnacle, needle, knob, horn, or pillar—rises in the ocean, and is often favored by cormorants, puffins, and gulls for nesting and whitewashing with clamorous possession.