One morning in November, 82-year-old Lin Heng-tao, an expert on historical sites in Taiwan, got up bright and early, for that day he was due to go with a dozen or so members of the historical sites committee of the Ministry of the Interior's relics preservation section, on an inspection tour of Hsinchu Railway Station.
十一月間，八十二歲的台灣古蹟專家林衡道一大早就起床了，他今天的行程是與內政部史蹟維護科十數位史蹟委員，一起到新竹火車站探勘，由於高速公路塞車，一行人經過三個小時車程，才勉強來到新竹火車站。