Chen Peng-hsiang, currently the director of the English department at Shih Hsin University and himself an ECM, says that in order to drum up financial support for themselves during the reforms of the late Ching dynasty, the Nationalist revolution and the later Republican crisis, revolutionaries extended the bounds of the battlefield to Southeast Asia.
早期自馬留台，現任世新大學英語系主任的陳鵬翔認為，中國晚清開始的變法維新、國民革命以及後來的民國危機，革命人士為了爭取華僑在金錢上的資助，將戰場延伸到南洋。