In Kosan's Daughter, Chang was trying to produce something about Taiwan, but he feels, "No matter how I try to write something like that [about Taiwan], my understanding of Taiwan is not as deep as that of the place where I was born and raised.
張貴興也曾試圖寫過台灣的人事物《柯珊的兒女》，但是「再怎麼寫，對台灣的瞭解還是沒有本地土生土長的人深入，所以還是回頭寫自己得好。」