In her article "Where's My Homeland? --The Evolution of Ethnic-Chinese Malaysian Writers in Taiwan," Hsu Shu-chin, who writes for the books page of the China Times, states, "The works of ECM writers living in Taiwan have been overlooked or misunder-stood by Taiwan's readers; local readers have nothing to say about them."
中時開卷版記者徐淑卿在一篇「鄉關何處－－馬華在台作家的遞嬗」中指出，「馬華旅台作家的作品對台灣讀者來說，就是因為忽略或誤解而產生的無言以對。」