Hsu Cheng-kuang, director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, explains that most research on Taiwanese history in the past was done by people interested in writing a general history of the is land. What is called for today, however, is more field investigations into the history of individual towns and regions.
中研院民族所所長徐正光表示，過去台灣史的研究多在「綜述」，今天則需要更多地方、區域性的實地採訪調查。