Baptized into three cultures Although he was born into a great clan, Lin Heng-tao could not escape the vicissitudes of the age he lived in. In Taiwan, mainland China or Japan, he was always an outsider.
雖然出身於大家族，林衡道也無法倖免於時代的影響，在台灣、大陸、日本三地，終歸都是游離的「邊緣人」。