Chen Hsin-yuan, who has visited the mainland dozens of times, believes that the singular views of mainland researchers toward Taiwan authors and their undue fear of certain viewpoints are due to the fact that they don't really understand the social situation here.
往返大陸十數次的陳信元也認為，許多台灣作家認為大陸研究者的觀點奇特偏執；大陸學者又對台灣文學獨出於中國文學的觀點分外恐懼，實在是因為雙方不夠瞭解所致。