You have to be impressed when you see the love Chen has had for his children and the broadminded way in which he brought them up. Looking through the more than 300 letters her dad sent to her in France, Tchen Yu-hsiou is reminded that her father, who was educated in Japanese during the occupation era, had to look up every Chinese character one by one in a dictionary in order to write to her.
陳慧坤對子女的愛與開明的教育方式，令人動容。翻閱父親寫給自己的三百多封書信，陳郁秀進一步補充，習慣以日文書寫的父親，那每一封書信，都是翻著國語字典，一個字、一個字寫成的。