After the work Chess King, Tree King, Child King by the mainland novelist Ah Cheng was serialized in Taiwan in the middle 1980's, mainland novels were all the rage in bookstores.
從民國七十年代中期大陸小說家阿城的作品「棋王、樹王、孩子王」在台灣刊行而造成風靡後，大陸小說一度是書店暢銷榜上的常客。