Ever since the release of fisherman writer Liao Hun'chi's latest book Living Off the Sea, many critics have been calling the book the starting point for a Taiwanese literature of the ocean. More than a few people have compared the book to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.
自從漁夫作家廖鴻基的新書《討海人》發表以來，許多評介者認為這是台灣海洋文學的濫觴；也有不少人拿他來和海明威的《老人與海》做比較。