Van der Aalsvoort is not a historian by training, but during a trip to Taiwan 20 years ago as a university student majoring in psychology, he felt strongly that he had somehow come home. He concluded that he must have been Taiwanese in a previous life.
蘭伯特未曾接受歷史研究專業訓練，但二十年前就讀於大學心理系時的一趟台灣之旅，讓他有回到故鄉之感，自認前世應為台灣人。