Many people are curious about just how many old maps of Asia or Taiwan there are in Western collections. According to Wei, more than a thousand years ago the Arabs introduced the spices of Southeast Asia to Europe and sold them at very high prices.
去年國立台灣博物館推出「地圖台灣」特展，三百多件展品中，有一百多件、超過三分之一的展品就來自魏德文的個人收藏。很多人好奇，目前西方收藏中，究竟有多少幅亞洲或台灣的古地圖？