In recent years, many persons of Fukienese descent in Taiwan have called for speaking their "mother tongue." Now this scholar, the first one to systematically study Fukienese, is being called out of the ivory tower.
近年國內許多閩南籍人士開始呼籲說「媽媽的話」，這位第一位有系統研究閩南語言的學者，遂被人從其「象牙塔」中發掘出來。