Chi Pang-yuan, a former professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University, has one answer. For many years now, says Chi, she has been participating in conferences and seminars of an academic or non-governmental nature, and at such gatherings she is always asked to "tell us about Taiwan."
推動中書西譯三十餘年的前台大外文系教授齊邦媛表示，多年來她到國外參加學術機構或民間團體的研討、座談會，總會被要求「講講台灣」。