Generally speaking, the mainland writers who had come to Taiwan after the war believed that Taiwanese literature was a fringe Chinese literature. The local Taiwanese writers, on the other hand, believed that Taiwanese literature had its own particular character that derived from Taiwan's particular historical circumstances.
戰後來台的大陸作家普遍認為，台灣文學是中國文學的邊疆文學，而本土的台灣作家則以為，台灣文學因台灣特殊的歷史情境自有其特殊性，隱然浮現台灣文學中的「中國結」與「台灣結」。