Nevertheless, aside from Cheng, well-known expert on the old trails Nelson Yang and environmentalist writer Liu Ko-hsiang have translated and written many volumes of earlier explorers 'and their own exploration works on Taiwan, expanding the view of local people toward the island and resulting in new interpretations for the Qing and Japanese periods.
而除了鄭安晞之外，著名的古道專家楊南郡以及環保生態作家劉克襄翻譯編撰了多冊前人和本身探險台灣的書籍，打開了國人對於台灣的新視野，也讓清朝乃至於日據時代的歷史獲得新詮釋。