The principles of hand papermaking are not hard to grasp, and Wang Kuo-tsai had already studied them extensively with his university teacher Chang Fung-chi (who developed a process for making Xuan art paper from pineapple leaves). But in Taiwan he could not find any experts well versed in both theory and practice with whom he could study.
雖然手工紙的理論不難懂，從他的大學老師、開發鳳梨葉宣紙的張豐吉教授處，王國財已學得很齊全，但台灣卻找不到理論與實務兼具的專家可資學習。