Chien Chen's early work was very much in this vein. But rather than looking back toward the mainland with longing, she instead nostalgically described the "native soil" of her hometown in Taiwan, often inserting Taiwanese dialect without losing the beautiful rhythms of her prose. These works naturally found a place on the shelves among similar works by women writers.
簡媜初期作品繼承了這樣的傳統，但內容有別於這條脈絡的大陸懷鄉基調，而側重本地鄉土情懷的描繪，即使常穿插台灣俚語，也不失典麗風韻，很自然地從眾多風格一致的女作家中區隔出來。