Statistics show that from 1979 to 1989 over 40 volumes of research papers were published in the mainland on literature by writers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and the overseas Chinese community, containing a total of more than 50 million characters.
大陸的一項資料統計指出，從一九七九年到八九年，大陸出版台、港、澳及海外華文研究論集，多達四十餘部，總字數超過五千萬言。