Taiwan's society has changed rapidly since the lifting of martial law in 1987. Ideology and values are no longer monolithic, but pluralistic. Everyone has their own ideas. Carrie Chen, associate director of the Research Center at Kang Ho Publishing, recalls that his colleagues on the editorial committee were "very cautious" about things that were controversial in old texts, like the depiction of women and aboriginal peoples.
解嚴之後台灣社會變動快速，意識型態、價值觀從一元而多元，呈現了百家爭鳴的局面，在教科書內容裡，過去被批評的諸如兩性不平等、對原住民歧視等，「我們在編輯過程中始終戰戰兢兢」，康和出版公司副理陳寶香說，深怕踩到這些地雷。