Lan Po-chou believes that Taiwanese historiography needs to be developed concurrently on an official level, through the full opening of archives, and on an individual one, through oral history. Only by rigorously pursuing both these lines of historical inquiry in tandem can the true history of Taiwan be recovered.
在台灣史建構方面，他認為唯有官修（全面開放檔案）、私修（做口述歷史採訪）兩線進行，互相交叉、檢索查證，才可還原歷史真相。