In a preface entitled "Changing Hometown," his good friend Tseng Chien-min wrote, "No other writer has captured the image of Taiwan's farming communities of recent decades like this.
好友曾健民為該書所寫的序〈變異中的農鄉〉中提及：「沒有一位作家這樣深情地刻畫過台灣數十年來農鄉的真實景象。