In terms of geographical and blood ties, Taiwan's culture indeed stems from the mainland, he believes, but the cultural influences the island has received from the Spanish, the Dutch, the Japanese and other settlers have resulted in the formation a unique cultural system whose literature cannot be considered simply a branch of Chinese literature.
他認為，誠然從地緣、血緣來看，台灣文化傳承自中國大陸，但幾經西班牙、荷蘭、日本等外來移民的影響，已受了各種不同文化的影響。因此他覺得，台灣地區的民眾早已形成特殊的文化體系，絕不是用中國文學的一個分支一詞所能概括的。