Tai Po-fen, a professor in the Sociology Department at Catholic Fu Jen University, who was born and raised in Wanhua and has participated in citizen efforts to revitalize the community there, offers the following analysis of the reasons for Wanhua's slide from prosperity to decay:
在萬華大理街出生長大，也曾參與當地社區營造工作的輔大社會系副教授戴伯芬，分析萬華由鼎盛走向沒落的原因：