Sung Ju-shan, a lecturer at Chinese Culture University, writes in her doctoral dissertation A Decade of Post-Cultural-Revolution Literature in Mainland China, "After shifting political circumstances debunked earlier values, the Red Guards who had devoted their youth to politics were faced with an urgent need to seek new meaning in life."
「經歷政治的更迭，原有價值觀的破滅，找尋人生的定位是這些自幼政治至上的紅衛兵心中很大的議題。」以《文革後十年大陸文學之研究》為博士論文的文化大學講師宋如珊說。