Perhaps Pa Hsin-cheng held more tightly to these feelings than other people. In the mid-1970s when the people of Taiwan still lived under a highly repressive government, Pa Hsin-cheng started to make stealthy contacts with his aged mother via friends in Japan and Hong Kong.
從民國六十年代中期、政治氣氛還很緊縮時，巴信誠就悄悄地透過日本、香港的友人，和家鄉的老母親取得了聯絡。