At a time when everyone in Taiwan was busy doing their best to "modernize," Shaih, living in America, was hard at work on a book about the old Taiwanese artists of the Japanese era. One can only imagine the difficulties and ignorance he had to overcome.
在人人忙著急速「現代化」、向前看的時代，身在美國的他卻忙著為日據時代老畫家著書寫傳，面臨的困難和忽視可想而知。