Growing up on a different branch In A Country Ruled by Gangsters, author Huang Pao-lien, who traveled in the mainland for a year in 1989, writes of the squeezing onto busses, the horrible toilets, the experience of being cheated and the other shocks that the mainland provides its visitors. But in her book she writes even more about her feelings on confronting these other Chinese, sprung from the same root.
八九年到大陸旅行一年的作家黃寶蓮，在《流氓治國》裡，雖然也提及擠火車、上廁所、人騙人等大陸文化所給予的震撼，但更多的則是，面對「同根生」中國人的態度。