Building Taiwan as a model colony Lin Wan-yi, a professor of sociology at Taiwan University, points out that after World War I, European socialist thinking was sweeping the world. Milestones of social welfare, such as the German pension system, were instituted at this time.
台灣大學社會系教授林萬億指出，第一次世界大戰後，歐洲社會主義思潮風起雲湧，幾個社會福利重要法案，如「英國國民保健法」，德國「年金保險制」，皆在此時通過。