With Western schools of thought outlawed, Nan Huaijin's works were the perfect filler for the gap they left. "At that time it seemed as though every single university student had a couple of Master Nan's works on the bookshelves," says Wang Jianwei.
西方思潮被禁，南懷瑾的著作卻正好在這一個缺口補了進來，「那時候，幾乎每個大學生的書架，都有一兩本南先生的大作，」王建偉表示。