If no one studies this area any more, a whole era of history might be lost to us, which would be awful! Q: Isn't your research different from that of Dutch scholars? A: The methods are the same.
吳密察說，台灣對荷據時期的研究，廿年之內大概不會超過日據時代的水準，這種話聽起來真叫人覺得「恐怖」。