He grew up in Shanghai's foreign concessions, with perhaps a French night club on one side of his house and a German restaurant on the other, and saw many instances of Old China being trampled by foreigners, and he unconsciously reflects this in his comics.
又因為他從小生長在租界區，一出門可能左手邊是法國夜總會，右手邊是德國餐廳，看到種種老中國受外國壓迫的情況，便不自覺反映在漫畫中了。