Her Old Taiwan Tetralogy, which was published between 1991 and 1996, was set in the Japanese colonial era. To prepare, she did four or five years of field research and data gathering.
以 1991 到 96 年間出版的「老台灣四部曲」：《輾轉紅蓮》、《負君千行淚》、《相逢一笑宮前町》、《月影》，這些以日治前後為背景的小說，寫作前她就作了四、五年的田野調查和資料蒐集。