Just 10 years ago, many observers also felt that the Tiananmen tragedy had irreversibly also severed the emotional attachment of the modern-day Chinese diaspora, in the US and elsewhere, to the mainland.

• 许多人觉察到中国人的无力感和无助感，这是西方帝国主义、日本人的侵略、国民党和共产党的冲突和战后40年文化被高度政治化的结果。