"Taiwan has been attacked by a Nativist zeitgeist for the last 20 years, and historians with their fingers on the pulse of society have had little choice but to reevaluate earlier perspectives on research .... My research subject has changed from specific ethnic groups to the land itself.
20 年來本土思潮不斷衝擊台灣，置身於社會脈動中的歷史學者，也不得不對過往的研究觀點進行反思。… … 我的研究主題，由原本的特定族群調整為土地。