I also wrote to the Taiwanese cultural and commercial representative without any luck. For me these no's were kind of a low blow. I can't understand the indolence of some Chinese regarding what they call wai-kuo jen.
對我而言，這些否定的答覆或拒絕回答真是一大打擊，因為我無法理解某些中國人在對待他們所謂的「外國人」時，所表現的散漫。