My research ultimately concerns all the ethnic groups active on this piece of land. Working from my belief that history should be tied to place, I proposed the notion of an island history of Taiwan, and used this concept to construct the autonomous standing of Taiwanese historical research. "
凡是在這片土地上活動過的所有族群，都是我在研究上的終極關懷；基於這樣的想法，我認為歷史應該跟土地有所結合，所以，我提出「台灣島史」概念，以此概念架構台灣史研究的主題性。