Ang, a classmate of Fix in the late 70s and early 80s in NTU's graduate history program and now an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History at the Academia Sinica, says students who wanted to choose Taiwan as a research topic would as a rule be regarded as "not academic," or political dissidents.
70 年代末期、80 年代初期費德廉在台大歷史研究所的同窗、中央研究院台灣史研究所副研究員翁佳音也說，當時歷史所學生要以台灣史當研究題目者，通常會被視為「非學術」或政治異議份子。