"ECM literature can provide Taiwan's writers with another alternative to consider." Ng says that today's Taiwanese literature is a relic of the May 4 Movement and a Western transplant.
「馬華文學可以給台灣文學工作者不同的參照」，黃錦樹指出，現代文學是「五四」以來的遺產、從西方橫的移植，大家都在同一條船上。