Taiwan critic Yeh Shih-tao believes that by repeatedly stressing that Taiwan literature is a branch of Chinese literature, mainland researchers belittle its achievements while seeming to praise it, adopting a patronizing attitude that reveals their unease and insecurity because it fails to live up to some of their key criteria.
文學評論者葉石濤認為，大陸的研究者一再強調，台灣文學是中國文學的一支，這是大陸研究者強以老大哥的位階心態，明揚暗貶台灣文學的成就，以及對台灣文學作品不符合大陸某些基調的疑慮與不安。