With the upsurge of local self-awareness, Taiwan studies has gone from relatively obscurity to a flourishing prominence, and Wei Te-wen is the gardener who planted the first seeds of this "flower" that has bloomed.
隨著本土意識的崛起，原本冷僻的台灣研究已成百花齊放的盛宴，而魏德文正是栽下第一顆台灣研究種子的植樹人。