Without history, a people loses its memories. The shaping of memories depends not only on historians, but also on the accumulation of personal experiences. In the 1990s Taiwan has seen a wave of oral histories. These can supplement inadequacies in the documentary record and also help reconstruct long-ignored aspects of days gone by.
沒有歷史，民族就失去記憶，記憶的形成，往往不是全靠歷史學家，而是一些個人經歷的累積，台灣在九○年代興起的最新一波口述歷史風，補充了文獻記載的不足，也重構了往昔曾被忽略的歷史片段。