But good times don't last forever. "After 1989, the novelty was gone out of mainland writings, and there was a rising tide of calls to place more emphasis on things Taiwanese, and there was much less introduction of books through academia than in the past," notes Wang. Sales of mainland literature reached a nadir.
但是好景不常，到民國七十八年以後，大陸作品的新鮮度降了，「文壇內，要求重視台灣本土文學的聲浪越來越高，學院裡的引介也不如從前」，王文伶說，大陸文學書的銷路便跌入谷底。