With the passage of time and events, Wang Dan's partners from those early days have fallen into anonymity or obscurity, and Taiwan's process of democratization has reached a point at which pure dissidents have receded into the background. What readers see and feel in the works of Wang Dan is perhaps a sense of loss for one's own youth and conscience.
當王丹當年的夥伴因時空的變換，隨之隱匿或淡出，當台灣民主化過程裡，純粹的異議者逐漸退為背景，王丹的創作不斷在台灣發表，讀者所看到與眷戀的，或許也是對自己青春、良心的傷逝。