Due to the political environment and the limited information of the time, the first Taiwan literature to be brought in, mostly fiction, was that of Li Hua, Nieh Hua-ling, Pai Hsien-yung and other so-called "overseas writers."
受限於資料及政治環境，一開始台灣文學先被引進的是所謂「海外作家」，如於梨華、聶華苓、白先勇等人的作品，而且以小說為主。