As for his wife's hope that their daughter Tchen Yu-hsiou would study in Japan, Chen felt that "in Paris you get the original merchandise, in Tokyo you only get second-hand."
而對於妻子希望女兒陳郁秀到日本留學，他也堅持：「在巴黎學到的是一手貨，到東京學的是二手貨。」