According to Thomas Lafargue's China's First Hundred, a history of the first Chinese students to study abroad, the young children changed greatly in both appearance and behavior within a few months of their arrival in the West.
據美國史家勒法吉（Thomas Lafargue）在「中國幼童留美史」（China ' s First Hundred）中的記載，幼童初到美國，不到幾個月內，外表及行為都有很大的轉變。