This article reflects on several questions emerged as acute concern in author's fieldwork: the outlawed experience and the prohibited writing; the presentation of identity in the field; secrecy and the right of privacy reconsidered; the moral calculation of possible harms; the risky relations between the researcher and the sponsor; the conflicting commands of multiple loyalties. The article argues that these questions are neither idiosyncratic nor trivial. Their rarely being discussed in Taiwan's academic literature bespeaks the un-examined frames of ethnographic study. The article strives for the recognition of these questions as problematic and pushes toward further discussion.