When Chen Chung-yu, now retired from his position as a research fellow in the Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, completed his own survey of Taiping Island (the largest of the Spratlys) in 1995, he found tombstones belonging to Qing-Dynasty sailors.
已退休的我國中研院史語所研究員陳仲玉，曾於 1995 年完成南沙太平島的調查，當時看到了清代船家的墓碑。