Without it, we might be completely in the dark about what it was like on Taiwan during the Dutch occupation, "says Wu Mi-ch'a, an associate professor in the history department at National Taiwan University, himself an expert in the History of Taiwan.
由於他的研究，「早期台灣的歷史大架構被搭起來了，沒有他的研究，荷蘭時代台灣是怎樣的狀況，也許大家完全不知道」，也專攻台灣史的台大歷史系副教授吳密察說。