A "greater China" perspective on history Lin Heng-tao is good at speaking of the past and is able to cite all kinds of examples, often containing a touch of childlike humor. Once, talking about his experience of leading field study camps on historical monuments in the 1970s, he said: "In those days, students had to do a pre-class morning study hour in which they read quotations of Generalissimo Chiang.
林衡道善講古，能旁徵博引，其中總帶著一絲頑童似的幽默，他曾說起民國六十年間辦史蹟研習會的一段經歷：「當時，每天早上學員必須做早課，念蔣委員長訓話，學生向我要求不要讀訓話，改成早上散步好嗎？