Lee Chiao, president of local authors 'association Taiwan Pen, also sees Gao's Nobel Prize as a highly significant event, particularly since this is the first time the prize has been awarded for works in Chinese. "It proves one thing: even though Asia is beset by all kinds of worries, literature has not ground to a halt."
台灣筆會會長李喬也認為，高行健得獎意義重大，尤其是以中文寫作得獎，這是第一次，「證明了一件事：在紛擾的亞洲，文學並沒有停頓。」