However, like so many historians sympathetic to the tangwai movement, Fix had been originally attracted to the February 28 Incident of 1947, so influential for Taiwan, as a dissertation topic.
不過，跟許多同情黨外運動的歷史學者一樣，1947 年爆發影響台灣深遠的「228 事件」才是他原本想做的主題。