Questions about East and West: "Famous" traces on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Lian Heng, courtesy name Yatang, was born in Tainan in 1878.

He is now better known to the public as the grandfather of Lien Chan, the former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang. In 1920, his "General History of Taiwan" was printed and published in three volumes, which made him famous in the field of Taiwanese history during the Japanese occupation era.