"I had previously been asked by nativist author Lin Ko-hsiang to collect materials on 19th-century foreign visitors to Taiwan, for a book he was writing. But it wasn't until 1998 that I began to systematically organize what I had collected," Fix recalls.
「在之前本土作家劉克襄為了寫書，請我幫他蒐集了許多 19 世紀來台外國人的資料，但一直到 1998 年，我才展開系統化的整理，」費德廉回憶。