Because I am the corresponding author
and have to sign off on the paper, I care
about every single word in it. … If I follow
what others do, then I am no different from
others. You cannot tell me because conven-
tion exists so I should follow convention.
Because it’s their policy that only “Taiwan”
or “Taiwan, ROC,” could be used in their
addresses, I wanted to know whether the
policy could be modifi ed, so I wrote to Lou-
Chuang Lee [minister of taiwan’s national
science council]. But it was only an inquiry
from a scientist to a fellow scientist.