Unlike scholars coming for short-term visits, most mainlanders here are permanent residents--spouses of Taiwanese, or the young or elderly who came to Taiwan to live with relatives. They have had a good long time to observe Taiwan's television.
目前在台長期停留的少數大陸人士，多屬一定階層﹘﹘來台依親的大陸配偶、小孩和老人；和短期停留的大陸訪問學者比較起來，他們有更為充裕的時間觀察台灣的電視節目。