During her years at Harvard, Lin Man-houng first encountered the controversy surrounding the international status of Taiwan among Taiwanese students abroad. Students from the unification and independence camps both gave her their literature. She found their viewpoints difficult to understand: Since they were all from Taiwan, what were they ultimately fighting about?
在哈佛的日子，林滿紅首次觸及海外留學生對台灣定位的爭議，當時統、獨學生社團都將刊物寄給她，她也試圖從中理解：同樣都是從台灣出來，大家到底在「爭什麼」？