As well as often meeting to exchange views on the political situation, the dangwai activists also published magazines criticizing the government policies of the day. In that era when opposition forces were suppressed, this got them into trouble.
他們除了常聚會交換對政局的觀點，在反對勢力遭壓迫的年代，也辦雜誌批判時政，卻因言賈禍。