Of course, a stream of cultural figures can't begin to compare in volume with the flood of Taiwanese business persons in the PRC, said to number some 300,000 in Shanghai alone, but money and head counts do not reflect the impact of those who come to engage in cultural pursuits.
比起在上海就有三十萬的台商，文化人西進在數量上或許只是九牛一毛，然而帶來的文化效應，卻不只是金錢或數字所能傳達。