A pioneer of field studies After Retrocession, Lin Heng-tao returned to Taiwan. Apart from a very brief period at the grain administration, for almost 30 years from 1952 to 1979 he worked at the Taiwan Province Historical Research Commission, and rose from commissioner to deputy director and finally director of the commission.
田野調查的先行者林衡道在光復之後回到台灣，除很短一段時間在糧政單位任職外，從民國四十一年到六十八年為止，近三十年的光陰，都在台灣省文獻會工作，由委員、副主任委員，一直晉升到主任委員。