From the anxious youth of Lou Ti, to the love of home and country of the overseas student of Women ti Ke, the broken dream of returning home in Fei-ts'ui Chieh-chih, up to the coming together of China and the West in the period of the Boxer Rebellion, Chao Shu-hsia has written down the heavy burden of her own heart while also speaking out about the sorrow and suffering of the overseas Chinese.
從徬徨少年的「落第」，到「我們的歌」留學生的家國情感，「翡翠戒指」的歸鄉夢醒，直到往溯八國聯軍時代的中西糾結。趙淑俠寫下心頭上的千斤重擔，事實上也說出了所有海外華人心上的負累和問號。