"Developed or undeveloped are completely relative concepts," says Pien Yu- yuan, an economics professor at National Taiwan University who has her own "relativity theory of development." She explains half-jokingly, "During the T'ang dynasty we could have been called a developed country and other places back- wards areas."
「開發不開發，完全是一種相對的概念」，台大經濟系教授邊裕淵提出「開發相對論」，她半開玩笑地解釋：「若在唐朝，我們就可以說自己是已開發國家，別人是落後地區。」