Especially for Taiwan's readers who have an ever-stronger sense of native pride, the temptation invoked by foreign experience, no matter good or bad, has long ago lost the mysterious magnetism of the past.
尤其對本土意識日益堅實的台灣讀者，異國經驗所喚來的誘惑，不論是好是壞，早已失去往昔的神秘力量。