Back in the capital, she obtained work as an apprentice in a sewing factory. Following the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four, her U.S. passport and birth certificate, which had been confiscated during the Cultural Revolution, were returned to her.
回到北平，在一處縫紉工廠求得一份學徒的工作，隨著毛澤東去世、四人幫垮台，那本在文革期間被劫去的美國護照和出生證明終於發還。