"If the 228 Incident had not happened, or if in the beginning the government had not excluded Taiwanese from participating in politics, the people might not have come to feel that they were being governed by an outside authority," says historian Bo Yang.
「如果沒有發生 228，或是光復初期沒有在參政權上刻意箝制台籍人士，也許不會有後來『外來政權』這樣的比喻，」柏楊過去接受本刊訪問時指出。