After the Council for Cultural Planning and Development proposed a plan for "integrated community development" in 1987, "literature and history workshops" were opened all across Taiwan. Old Dutch, Qing-dynasty and Japanese documents that had long been collecting dust once again saw the light of day, and bit by bit the history of the isle of Formosa was pieced together.
文建會在民國八十三年提出「社區總體營造」的構想後，全台灣各地自發型的「文史工作室」紛紛成立，從塵封已久的荷蘭文、清朝文書、日據文獻中，一點一滴重溯福爾摩沙美麗之島的曲折歷史。