The relationship of Yu Kwang-chung and Chen Fang-ming became a topic of discussion because they started out as teacher and student and then had a major falling out. For 15 years, Chen, who had gone to America, was on a KMT blacklist and couldn't return to Taiwan.
余光中與陳芳明，這兩個名字連在一起之所以成為話題，乃是他們開始於一段關係匪淺的師生情緣，接之而來的是巨大的斷裂，整整 15 年，赴美留學的陳芳明名列國民黨黑名單，被切斷了回台灣的路。