Tragic songs of the journey to Taiwan: When Lien Ya-tang, the author of A History of Taiwan, said "Taiwan is without history," he meant that Taiwan lacked formal history written by government officials.
渡台悲歌《台灣通史》的作者連橫說「台灣固無史」，是指沒有官家正式為之做史，然而老百姓卻用歌仔寫史。