: But many feel that even if Taiwan dealers do not do the buying, mainlanders who now place their hopes in modernization and an improvement in the standard of living will sell their heirlooms anyway, just as Taiwanese once did.
然而很多業者認為，即使我們不去收購，以大陸人民對現代化、改善生活的渴望，還是會變賣古物，就像當年的台灣一樣。