"Before then, the number of people from Taiwan involved in astronomy was very limited, and almost none were coming back to Taiwan." So says Professor Chiueh Tzi-hong of National Taiwan University's physics department, who returned to Taiwan in 1989, and who helped plan the ASIAA.
「在那之前學天文的人很有限，回國的則幾乎沒有，」一九八九年回到台灣的台大物理系教授闕志鴻參與了中研院天文所的規劃。