Tao Tao Liu of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford, who translated Lee Chiao's trilogy, made a special trip to Taiwan to get a first hand feel for the setting. Liu, along with Lee and Chi Pang-yuan, spent two days in the mountains in Miaoli where the book is set.
李喬《寒夜三部曲》的譯者、英國牛津大學教授劉陶陶，為了有臨場感受，特地來台，由齊邦媛與李喬陪同到書中描述的苗栗山區看了兩天。