US manufacturing slumped in the mid 1980s, and many of the Taiwanese who had remained in the US after completing graduate school found themselves middle-aged and bumping up against the glass ceiling.
風水輪流轉，1980 年代中期美國生產力不振，許多留美學人又因種族「玻璃天花板」而面臨中年升遷瓶頸。