"Hsinchu residents seem conservative and parochial on the surface," says Chen Mei-chun, a researcher with Dandelion Workshop, "but once you have made contact you find that they can be very flexible, and highly spontaneous." When Chen was studying at Tsinghua University she spent some time filming a documentary and collecting historical material in the Chincheng New Village, a military dependants settlement just across from the university.
「新竹市民表面看似保守、排外，可是一旦接觸後，就發現他們很有行動力，自發性很強」，蒲公英文化工作室專案研究員陳美均認為，她就讀於清華大學時，也曾經到大學對面的眷村「金城新村」拍攝紀錄片、收集文史資料。