In this period, many intellectuals who had been living overseas came home one after another, including Chen Chuan-hsing, Huang Han-ti and Wu Ma-li (writers), as well as Chen Shih-ming, Li Chih-wen, Chuan Pu, Lu Ming-teh, Chang Cheng-jen, and Chu Teh-yi (educators). Over the course of ten years they brought back half a century of modernist and post-modernist thinking from the West.
在這前後，大量的放洋畫家陸續歸國，像是從事文字工作的陳傳興、黃瀚荻、吳瑪等，或者從事教學工作的陳世明、黎志文、莊普、盧明德、張正仁、曲德義…… 等人，將西方自「後現代」以來半個世紀的各種觀念，在十年內全部帶進台灣。