While teaching a class on the First Opium War in 2001, Lam recalls that one student "stuck up his hand and asked, 'So what did Lin Zexu do here in Macao?'"
2001 年的一堂歷史課，林發欽上的是鴉片戰爭，「課堂中，突然有學生舉手問我，『林則徐到我們澳門來幹嘛？』」林發欽回憶。