The 1990s witnessed a big upsurge in nature writing and the popularization of nature watching among ordinary people in Taiwan. Although nature guidebooks sell like hot cakes, nature writing has always remained introductory in scope and has failed to become a genuine literary genre. It has therefore been quietly relegated to the margins of the publishing market.
一九九○年代，台灣興起一股自然寫作熱潮，也將自然觀察的風氣帶進一般人生活中，然而今天生態指南書籍依舊熱賣，自然書寫卻始終停留在櫥窗式的引介，尚未達到一定的文學高度，就已沉寂地退居市場邊緣。