Beginning in 1988, with the opening of relations across the Taiwan Straits, Lin Ku-fang, who had been hidden in the city for more than ten years, "started on a more sociable path, in order to find out how much of what I had learned was true and how much false," he says.
一九八八年開始，因應於兩岸的開放，隱於市十餘年的林谷芳，為了「映證所學的真實與虛妄，開始了他較社會化的生涯」，林谷芳說。