Hsu Chia-luan could not decide whether to go or not and wound up in Anhwei University's physics department. Hsu remarked: "To be honest, in my youth, I was a leftist. I even welcomed the Communists with open arms because I thought they would do what they said they would do."
「坦白說，年輕時我的思想是左傾的」，徐家鸞說：「我甚至曾經舉雙手歡迎共產黨來改造中國，因為我以為他們所說的，他們會做到。」