Conservative estimates place the number of writers of fiction in Taiwan in the 1950s at 1500-2000 and their collective output in the neighborhood of 70 million words.
有人保守估計，五○年代小說創作的人數約在一千五百至二千人之間，生產量大概在七千萬字之譜，聲勢不可不謂之浩大。