For female students who didn't want to follow their mothers in spending a life helping husbands and raising sons, the new China had a special allure. From Singapore's Nanyang Girls School, they returned to China in droves, and often it was high schoolers leading middle schoolers.
她指出，那時盛傳「新中國」注重男女平權，對不希望走母輩相夫教子傳統老路的年輕女學生來說，特別有吸引力，因而像新加坡南洋女中，多的是高中學姊帶著初中學妹，一整批一整批回來的。