In the past, a Japanese publisher gave as its reason for refusing the work of Cheng Wen that, "You foreigners don't understand Japanese laughter or Japanese tears." Today his drawings are carried in Japan's best-selling magazine comic book, and he has been called "a treasure of Asia."
日本出版社曾以「你們外國人不懂日本人的笑、日本人的哭」為理由，拒絕鄭問的作品；如今他的畫稿卻刊登在當地最暢銷的漫畫雜誌上，並被捧為「亞洲至寶」。