Voice in the wilderness Taiwan's academic community held a special conference in 1999 on the 30th anniversary of Yin's death. Chiu Hei-yuan, who formerly taught sociology at NTU and now is a researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the Academia Sinica, points out that Yin's arrest and silencing in fact attracted little attention in society, because that was the period in which authoritarian rule was at its most effective.
孤寂的吶喊一九九九年殷海光逝世三十年，台灣學術界舉辦了紀念研討會，曾任教台大社會系、現任中研院社會所研究員的瞿海源指出，當年殷海光被迫害時並沒有引起社會的注意，因為那時正處於一個戒嚴最有效統治的階段。