During the 1980s, the glory days for literature in Taiwan, fans concentrated their affections on a small number of writers, but with changing times, the favored writers of the past have fallen into disfavor, and have been displaced by new arrivals on the scene.
在文學書籍風光一時的七十年代，爾雅、九歌等「文學五小」曾經集寵愛於一身，但隨著時代變遷，昔日的文學寵兒逐漸退潮，遭後浪追趕。