Shuttling Between East and West: Generally speaking, overseas Chinese and foreign reviewers are better at sensing how Lai's work constantly points to the search for an image by today's Chinese, and at the confrontation of tradition vs. modernity, Taiwan vs. the mainland and China vs. the West.
穿梭在中西之間一般而論，對海外華人及外國評論者而言，他們更能感受到賴聲川戲中不斷點出這一代中國人的形象追尋，點出傳統 VS．現代、台灣 VS．大陸、中國 VS．西方的交鋒。