The idea of writing history about ordinary people is not new, but there are few in Taiwan who have gathered the resources and gone out and done it. The recent wave of oral histories has been a step forward in terms of accumulating data on the lives of ordinary folks.
庶民史的建立，不是新觀念，但是在台灣匯集資源真正去做的並不多，這幾年口述歷史的風氣，將庶民史料的累積，又往前推了一步。