In the process of researching the February 28 Incident and the history of the Japanese colonial period, Fix discovered that Taiwanese dissatisfaction with the colonial regime could be seen everywhere. "But from the 1950s, the focus of dissatisfaction turned to the KMT government.
在研究 228 以及日本殖民史的過程中，費德廉發現台灣人對於殖民政權的不滿隨處可見，「然而，到了 1950 年代之後，不滿的情緒矛頭轉而朝向了國民黨政權。