Author Lung Ying-tai says that in her youth she read Chiang Meng-lin's Western Tide, Chiang Ting-fu's The Power of Youth and Hu Shih's Ding Zaijun. All her accumulation of knowledge and all her character training at university was in preparation for the day when she could do her bit for her people and country.
作家龍應台說自己年輕時讀的是蔣夢麟的《西潮》、蔣廷黼的《青年的力量》、胡適的《丁在君這個人》，大學裡所有知識的累積與人格鍛鍊則是為有一天能為民族付出，為國家奉獻作準備。