這本書主要是想分享給兩種讀者，一種是在做遷移研究的人，另一種是本身即為遷移者，也許您可以參考與閱讀本書。作者稱，本書不是完整的回憶錄，而是把在臺灣居住五十年中，聚焦於描繪出在臺灣大學的學術角色，也是把自己人生最寶貴的歲月做個記錄。本書所要呈現的，不是只有關於移民生活成功的一面，其實在此過程也夾雜了挫折與失意，以及適應上的躑躅與徬徨。
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Lee Chack Fan/ 李焯芬
President, Chu Hai College of Higher Education
Emeritus Professor and Former Vice-President, HKU
Nora is well respected as a diligent and highly productive scholar, and a very able organizer of academic conferences and international scientific exchange programs. Nora reminds me of my late teacher, Professor Jao Tsung-I, who officially retired at the age of 70 but continued his scholarly research studies until he was close to a hundred years old.
John Lidstone
Professor of Geography, Queensland University of Technology
As my own life continues, my reading of Nora’s “Memoir” both educates me on the unfolding of an academic career across the US and Asia vastly different from my own in England and Australia. We started in very different places and although we lived through the same historical period, we operated in vastly different social, cultural, gender, political contexts.
林楨家
國立臺灣大學理學院副院長
地理環境資源學系教授
在繽紛閃亮的字裡行間，翻山渡海的故事情節中，愈加了解這位學術前輩深受大家敬重的原因。特別是在每個轉折處，感動中不忘問自己，我會用什麼態度？做什麼決定？能像姜老師這樣勇敢與堅韌嗎？
張瓊惠
國立臺灣師範大學英語系教授
田野研究及人物訪查是Nora的學術專長，現在她拿這個本領，把自己家族的移民史仔細探究了一番。……這本書讓她好好地訪談了自己，思考在台灣五十年來的人生起伏；這本書是Nora與自己的對話，情真意切。
各界推薦
Lee Chack Fan/ 李焯芬
President, Chu Hai College of Higher Education
Emeritus Professor and Former Vice-President, HKU
Nora is well respected as a diligent and highly productive scholar, and a very able organizer of academic conferences and international scientific exchange programs. Nora reminds me of my late teacher, Professor Jao Tsung-I, who officially retired at the age of 70 but continued his scholarly research studies until he was close to a hundred years old.
John Lidstone
Professor of Geography, Queensland University of Technology
As my own life continues, my reading of Nora’s “Memoir” both educates me on the unfolding of an academic career across the US and Asia vastly different from my own in England and Australia. We started in very different places and although we lived through the same historical period, we operated in vastly different social, cultural, gender, political contexts.
林楨家
國立臺灣大學理學院副院長
地理環境資源學系教授
在繽紛閃亮的字裡行間，翻山渡海的故事情節中，愈加了解這位學術前輩深受大家敬重的原因。特別是在每個轉折處，感動中不忘問自己，我會用什麼態度？做什麼決定？能像姜老師這樣勇敢與堅韌嗎？
張瓊惠
國立臺灣師範大學英語系教授
田野研究及人物訪查是Nora的學術專長，現在她拿這個本領，把自己家族的移民史仔細探究了一番。……這本書讓她好好地訪談了自己，思考在台灣五十年來的人生起伏；這本書是Nora與自己的對話，情真意切。