The sinking of the steamer Taiping in 1949 shocked people in Mainland China. In the midst of the Chinese Civil War, people were fleeing from China to Taiwan. The Taiping was carrying perhaps over twice her rated capacity in passengers on her voyage when she collided with another vessel, causing the loss of 1,500 souls. The story is the subject of a new John Woo film, The Crossing.

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In this context what does 'stereogram' mean? I Googled it and it could be stereo sound, or those crazy hidden images in artwork which takes hours of staring to decypher. Neither description sounds very helpful for instructions.

'Stereogram' is word Meng uses and I take it as describing 3D imaging for the instruction illustrations. I'm hoping to get sample image of them for a follow-up article when it's actually released.

The hidden 3D images in patterns is the most common example of stereograms but I don't think that's what is for definition of the word.

Maybe you have to stare for hours at the instructions before you understand them!

Or the instructions come with green and red '3-D' glasses!