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2010-01-30T14:09:40.496+08:00

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Dear Anonymous, Thank you for asking the question....

2010-01-24T23:13:18.378+08:00

Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for asking the question.
Figuratively, "台灣來鴻" means "台灣來信", referring to the news report sent to London (where BBC is located) from Taiwan (where BBC reporter 楊孟瑜 was based).
The term 鴻 or 雁 or 鴻雁 comes from a Chinese idiom "鴻雁傳書" ("a wild goose acted as the messenger carrying the letter"), which in turn comes from a story about 漢武帝 and 蘇武 as recorded in 《史記》, the first general history in China by 司馬遷.
Over the centuries, in literary writings 鴻, 雁, or 鴻雁 has been synonymous with the messenger or even the letter or message thus carried.
The term "外一章" （"a left-out chapter"）is usually used in the title of a story about some funny and interesting sidelights of a major event. Such topics are also called "snippets", or "花絮" in Chinese.
The official visits to mainland China by 連戰 and 宋楚瑜 were major news events, whereas those funny stories that 楊孟瑜 told would only make a "chapter left out" of the great topic of "兩岸交流".
The above explanations, I hope, will help you better understand the source text.

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2010-01-24T19:27:02.081+08:00

Hi Allen,
I don't quite understnad what "台灣來鴻","外一章", mean.
Would you tell me the meanings please?

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