For these daughters who have already been married off, "not encouraging them to return to China to live" has become an unwritten rule on the mainland. "Coming back to China to live," Liang says, "does neither China nor the overseas Chinese any good." Those who settle down in the mainland, he explains, must become Chinese citizens and renounce their hard-to-come-by foreign citizenship.
此外，僑胞既被視為嫁出去的女兒，「不鼓勵返鄉定居」也就成為不成文的規定。