In 1996 Wei Te-wen discovered in an old book store in Japan a copy of Atlas Chinensis written by a Dutchman in 1671. In this book were six copperplate engravings of Taiwan Aborigines, which absolutely floored him. This, he thought, had to be the earliest pictorial record ever made of Taiwan Aborigines.
1996 年魏德文在日本的舊書店發現一本出版於 1671 年、荷蘭人撰寫的古書──《地圖中華》（Atlas Chinensis），其中有 6 張銅版刻的台灣原住民圖像，讓他驚為天人，他想，這應是年代最早的台灣原住民圖像紀錄。