Westerners and Chinese, new immigrants and old, people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the mainland all make appearances in her tales. Sometimes they live in harmony; sometimes they plot against one another. The practicalities of life force those Chinese who have come from different areas at different periods of time to form an "early reunification" overseas.
洋人與華人，新僑與老僑，台灣人與香港人與大陸人，在陳的小說世界裡你來我往，合縱連橫，生活的現實逼得這些來自不同地區、不同時期的中國人在海外「提早統一」了。