Brief Introduction: The site used to be the Railway Hospital. After years of desertion, it was rented by the Handicraft Association and renovated into a place of exhibition of stone art objects and commodities

About 6 hours from Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung—Fengkang—South Link Highway—Taitung—Hualien

Regular shuttle buses to and from Hualian Airport and Hualien Railway Station. For confirmation, call (03)822-2111, and ask for “Information Center.”
Accommodations:

There are 360 pleasant suites of all kinds, each with a large window for watching the beautiful views of the mountains or the ocean, providing a bright and comfortable atmosphere. There are choices of double, triple, quadruple rooms, and among them are some de luxe and grand-view suites. All the rooms provide easy, comfortable, and home-like feelings.

2003 Price List：http://www.parkview-hotel.com/parkview3.htm

Provides Western buffet. There is a grand 12-meter high glass-screen

window, the only one in Taiwan, for watching the big garden outside and the views of the Central Mountains.
The Village Chinese Restaurant

Decorated and furnished in traditional Chinese style, creating a peaceful and elegant atmosphere, with first-rate chefs to provide a wide variety of tempting Chinese dishes.

The most economical fine-star Japanese cuisine, mainly healthy and delicious Shabu Shabu varieties.

The large banquet halls on the second floor and the flexible multi-purpose conference facilities accommodate up to 600 persons. Elegantly decorated, with adequate imported audio-visual facilities, suitable for feasts, gatherings, and international conferences.

The Lobby Lounge has a grand view of the landscape. Sitting here with good friends for a drink, with the soft, pleasant melodies of the piano, you are surrounded by a peaceful and relaxing atmosphere. A very good place for a short break.
Snack Bar at the Garden Court Western Restaurant

Delicate cakes, fresh-baked bread and cookies, and various Western snacks of all seasons and occasions.

With 240-inch screens and imported hi-fi stereos and deluxe lighting, you will enjoy ecstatic singing with family and friends in the easy, comfortable, and relaxing atmosphere.

Parking: A parking lot.

Scenic Spots in the Vicinity: Hualien Golf Field

Suggested Tours: One-day Tours:

Hotel—Taroko Tourist Center—Shakadang or White Polar Baiyang)Trail

Ecological Trip—Swallow Grotto—Loving Mother Bridge—Tienhsiang—Tunnel of Nine Turns—Pulowan

Atayal Exhibition Center—Eternal Spring Shrine—Train Station, Airport, or back to the Hotel.

Hotel—Liyu Lake—Lintienshan Forestry Cultural Park—Kuangfu Sugar Refinery (Lotus Watching at Mataian)—Chao Feng Ranch—Sunset at Chihsintan Bay—Train Station, Airport, or back to the Hotel.

East Coast—Yenliao Grand Buddha Statue—Jichi Beach—Kweian Mountain Sightseeing—Shitipin Rocks—Mysterious Moon Cave—Clumsy-But-Peculiar Art Plaza—Shihmen Sea-erosion Gate—Fan Shu Liao (Brave Giants’ Woods)—Train Station, Airport, or back to the Hotel.

Rafting at Hsiukuluan River

Hotel—Kuangfu Sugar Refinery—Liushidan Mountain (watching day lily flowers or the rape flower fields at Fuli)—Luoshan Waterfall—Wuher Tea Farm—Train Station Airport, or back to the Hotel.

Mountain-and-sea Views in Hualien and Taitung

Ocean Park

Taroko National Park

Taroko Gorge—Swallow Grotto—Lushui—Tienhsiang—Tunnel of Nine Turns—Eternal Srping Shrine.

Suburbs of Hualien City

Coastal Creek-trailing

Suilien and Niushan Coast

Chilai and Lungjen

Hotel—Kung Long Space Park—Train Station, Airport, or back to the Hotel.

Night Trip for Delicious Snacks

Hotel—Ami Cultural Village (Aboriginal Dance Show)—Night Market Downtown—walking to Hualien Harbor.

In Search of Cetaceans

Hotel—Whale Watching Pier—Search for cetaceans at sea—Train Station, Airport, or back to the Hotel.

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Sources of Data: http://www.parkview-hotel.com/

Topography and Geology of Hualien City(花蓮市的地形地質)

Name of Topography: Hualien Coast Plain and Meilum Terrace

Name of Town: Hualien City

Place of County: Hualien County

Category of Topography: Alluvial Plain, Terrace

Geological Category of Town: Pleistocene Conglomeratic Stratum

Brief Introduction to Geology of Town: The city is located near the northern tip of the extended land area of the contact suture zone between the Eurasia Plate and Philippine Sea Plate. Meilun Fault, an active fault, is the evidence of vigorous plate movements. The surface of this area consists mainly of the alluvial layer, a combination of conglomeratic layer of Pleistocene gravel and sand and Holocene gravel, sand, and clay. The Pleistocene conglomeratic stratum exists mainly in the Meilun Terrace area, and is also called Meilum conglomeratic layer, an alluvial layer of shallow sea facies. Meilun Mountain and Chilaibi Cape are examples of fine outcrops. The Holocene alluvial layer spreads through the whole city, and is the main geological feature of the city. It is a mixture of loose sand, gravel, mud, and clay. It is an alluvium of sea and river facies, formed through the functions of lifting and elevation.
Source of Data: Wang Yuan, Yang Chao-nan, and Chen Wen-shan (1991).

A 1/50,000 Illustration of the Geology of Tawain—Hualien.

Central Geological Survey, Ministry of Economics

Distinguished Characters in Hualien City (花蓮市的人物)

Mr. Kuo arrived in Hualien alone in 1942. He later met Lin Kwei-hsing, who organized “Hualien Harbor Music Association” for Mr. Kuo to teach music. On August 12, 1943, he held a concert in the Showa Memorial Hall, in which his “Accordion Trio” was first played. “Memories” and Hualien Dance” were first announced in concerts held at Pacific Hall (later Hualien Theater) on April 29-30, 1944.

Songs: ”Memories,” “Hualien Dance,” “You Come,” “A Song in a Moon-lit Night,” “The Shepherd’s Call,” “Listening to Heavenly Sounds,” “Expecting the River to Clean Up,” “The Lass in the Mountains,” “The Shepherd’s Song,” “The White Egret,” “Autumn Scene,” “Song of Teachers,” “Butterfly,” “March of Light,” “Mother’s Heaven,” “Lullaby,” “Learning to Sing,” etc.

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Chief editor, Hanlin Publishing Co.

Artistic designer, Chao-rong Printing Co.

Director of Planning Department, Shang-sang Productions

Producer, Hsie-zu Productions

Contributions:

Chen Li’s poems are written in a local viewpoint, with perspectives of the world, attempting to combine the local with the avant—grade, and the Island with the world. The various subjects show his concern and love for the human life, his search for homeland and historical voices, his praises of daily trifles, his resistance of the stiff system and forms, and his construction and defense of a world of arts and imagination.

Poetry: In front of the Temple, Animal Lullaby, Collected Poems of Chen Li I (1973-1993), Clown Beefy’s Love Song, Intimate Book-Selected Poems of Chen Li (1974-1992), Miniature Universe, The Edge of the Island.

Prose: Love Songs in the Human World, Sunny-day Book, The Voice of the Rainbow, Rhapsody of Lili.

Discourse: Holy Arias—Dante, The Everlasting Strawberry Field

Translation: Selected Modern Latin American Poems

Awards:

23^rd Wu San-lien Award for Literature

National Award for Distinguished Young Poet

First Place, Narrative Poetry, China Times Award for Literature

Recommended Award, Narrative Poetry, China Times Award for Literature

National Award for Literature and Arts.

Editing Department, Lungtien Publishing Co.

Editing Department, Hanlin Publishing Co.

Designing Department, Chao-rong Printing Co.

Planning Department, Shang-sang Productions

Hsie-zu Productions

His poems are full of creative ideas and wit, roaming between introversion and extroversion, inviting people to think.

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http://native.nhltc.edu.tw/theme92/ht/a2-3.htm

http://www.hccc.gov.tw/htmls/writer/name-32.htm

Name: Lo Shang-lin (駱香林)

Sex: Male

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Year of Birth: 1895

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Place of Birth: Hsinchu

Area of Activities: Hualien City

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Special Skills: Poetry, writing, painting, calligraphy, photography

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Experiences: Moved to Hualien in 1933, and stayed for life.

Contributions:

Mr. Lo is the chief scholar that compiled Hualien County Documents. He is highly respected by the people of Hualien, and has great achievements in poetry, writing, painting, calligraphy, stone appreciation, and photography. In 1949, when Hualien County Document Compiling Committee was organized, he was appointed the Chief Commissioner. He compiled The Eight Great Sceneries in Hualien.

Complied Hualien County Documents, 19 volumes, 1952. Published An Album of the Sceneries and Scenes of Hualien, 100 Folk Songs, The Complete Works of Lo Shang-lin.

Mr. Lo is the chief scholar that compiled Hualien County Documents. He devoted himself to cultural enlightenment in Hualien for a very long time.

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Yuli Junior Middle School

Hualien Teachers’ College

National Taiwan Normal University

Teacher of Chutung Elementary School, Loshan Elementary School, Meilun Junior Middle School, and Huakang Junior Middle School. President, Tungchao Literature. Chief Editor, Hualien Youth. Assistant Chief Commissioner, Poetry Creating Committee, Taiwan Writers’ Association. President, Hualien Ching-hsi New Literature Association. Presently, Club Advisor, Hualien Girls’ High School, and Counselor, Hualien Culture and Education Foundation.

Novels: Nostalgia, The Train in the Frontier Town.

Prose: Poetic Feelings of the Northern Sea, Looking at the Moonlight Above, Feelings of the Past, Love of the Drizzle and the Waves, A Song for You: To My Young Friends.

Poetry: The Man Who Reads the Stars, Brightening the China of Tomorrow, Self-selected Works of Yeh Jih-song, Pieces of Love over the High Mountains, Focusing the Lens on the East Coast.

Children’s Literature : Selected Poems for Children by Yeh Jih-song.

Awards: Chunghsing Award for Literature

Medal of Chinese Linguistics

National Medal of Distinguished Youth

Golden-statuette Prize for New Literature, Garrison Command

Award for Children’s Literature, Ministry of Education

Golden-ring Award, Ching-hsi Literature

Tungchao Literature

Hualien Youth

Poetry Creating Committee of Taiwan Writers’ Association

Hualien Ching-hsi New Literature Association

Hualien Culture and Education Foundation

Mr. Yeh taught elementary schools and high schools for forty years, and is still devoted to creative writing after retiring. Has represented the country to attend Conference of Taiwanese and Korean Writers, Conference of Asian Writers, and Conference of Poets of the World.

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Hualien Boys’ Junior Middle School

Hualien Boys’ Senior High School

Department of Foreign Languages, Taiwan University

Teacher of Hualien High School. Studied at Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa, and later worked at TTV. With his strong vitality and concentration on a literary career, he struggled with malignant tumor of nosopharyngeal passages for ten years before dying in 1990. A great loss.

His A Buffalo-cartload of Dowry is an immortal, classical work of local literature, written with skills of modernism.

Novels: A Buffalo-cartload of Dowry; Lonely Red; A Story of Three Springs; Rose, Rose, I Love You; The Mastersinger of Life.

Plays: A Buffalo-cartload of Dowry, The Great Fight.

Criticism: Starting with Jane Eyre.

Translation: Autobiography of Ingrid Bergman.

Awards: Recommended Prize, 3^rd China Times Award for Fiction.

Organizations Participated: TTV

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A Buffalo-cartload of Dowry is a classical work of local literature.

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Master, University of Iowa

Ph. D. in Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley

Experiences:

Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts

Visiting Professor, Taiwan University

Professor, Princeton University

Professor, Hong Kong University of Technology

Professor, University of Washington at Seattle

Presently, Dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dong Hwa University

Contributions:

Important Works:

Prose: A Collection of Yeh Shan’s Prose, The Spirit of Berkeley, and The Completion of a Poem.

Poetry: Collected Poems of Yang Mu, I.

Collected Poems of Yang Mu, II.

Edition: Selected Prose of Hsu Jih-mo, Selected Poems of Hsu Jih-mo, Selected Modern Chinese Poems, I, and Selected Modern Chinese Poems, II.

Wu Lu-chin Award for Prose, 1998.

Wu San-lien Award, 2001.

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Brief Introduction:

Yang Mu is a renowned poet in Taiwan. Many of his works are profoundly influential.

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Mr. Liao is a professional fisherman. He loves the sea, and understands the sea and the fish. His works of marine literature fully show the tight connection of life between humans and the sea. His work The Fisherman is regarded as the first work of marine literature in Taiwan.

Mr. Liao’s works of marine literature fully show the tight connection of life between humans and the sea. He is the first writer devoted to marine literature.

Telephone: 03-833-4133

Fax: 03-833-7095

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Personal Website: http://www.kuroshiio.org.tw/html/us_company01.htm

http://www.hccc.gov.tw/htmls/writer/name-42.htm

Night School, Hualien Harbor High School

When Professor Kano, a Japanese biologist’ came to Hualien to do his field study, Wang Tien-song served as his research assistant. In their study, three new species of fish and one new species of clam were found. Around 1991, Mr. Wang donated his collection of antiques, specimens, and shells from all over the world to fourteen schools to help with the foundations of “Halls of Materials of Local Studies.” He is often called “Curator Wang.”