Huang Pei-jung observes that breaking down the elitist class structure and freeing the proletariat from oppression were originally the most prominently displayed features of Chinese Communist power; yet today those who are able to read complex characters have become a 'new cultural elite.'
黃沛榮指出，打破階級，讓無產階級出頭，原是中共政權彰顯的特色，如今，能讀繁體字反倒成另一種「新文化階級」了。