The Taiwan of this period had just emerged from poverty. "People really wanted to understand foreign cultures. And women were discovering a latent desire to find their own space to roam," says social critic Nanfang Shuo.
三毛時代的台灣，「才剛脫離貧窮，人們極力想瞭解異文化，女性也有潛在的慾望，想要自找出走空間」，文化評論者南方朔說。