In the wake of economic development and a flood of outsiders who have come in search of fortune, the poetic image of Mae Salong I held in my heart has, in the real world, been washed away without a trace. The archetypical borderland shantytown of Bo Yang's book The Alien Realm no longer exists.
我心裡詩一般的美斯樂傳奇也隨著經濟發展、外人湧入美斯樂淘金，而消失的無影無蹤了。當年柏楊《異域》書中的典型邊區荒城已經不存在了。