Early in her career, Wei Shu-chen worked at the Independence Evening Post, where she broke societal taboos by publishing works like "Taiwan's Elite Figures Who Disappeared during the February 28 Incident in 1947" while serving in the newspaper’s cultural publishing department.
The Council for Cultural Affairs, predecessor of the Ministry of Culture, launched "the Challenge 2008 National Development Plan" in 2002. Under the plan, the old Hualien winery buildings were transformed into the Hualien Cultural Creative Park. It was designed to become a regional platform for cultural events and commercial services.