In its second decade, SMC began also to deal with books on Taiwan studies written by Taiwanese. These included Ethnological Researches Among the Thao of Sun-Moon Lake, Formosa and books on indigenous psychology, a tour of the Taiwan Museum, the beauty of Chiufen and the story of Taiwan's railways, books ranging over the natural, applied and social sciences.
第二個 10 年起，南天開始同步經營本土作者的台灣研究書籍，包括台大人類學系教授陳奇祿的《日月潭邵族調查報告》、本土心理學、台灣博物館巡禮、九份之美、台灣火車的故事等書，出版書種橫跨自然、應用、社會科學等領域。