Ng Kim Chew says that even though the quality of the works by ECM writers has been tested and affirmed after literary battles large and small, these works have not managed to interest Taiwan's critics.
黃錦樹認為這批馬華旅台作家的文學品質儘管歷經大小文學戰役，獲得肯定，但是卻引不起台灣評論者的興趣。