He proclaimed himself a Marxist and studied works of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong with like-minded classmates at a time when the majority of the students at the University of Hong Kong supported the colonial rule and had negative views on the communist regime in China.
Ia memproklamasikan dirinya sebagai seorang Marxis dan mempelajari karya-karya Karl Marx dan Mao Zedong bersama dengan teman sekelas sepemikirannya ketika kebanyakan pelajar di Universitas Hong Kong mendukung kekuasaan kolonial dan memiliki pandangan negatif terhadap rezim komunis di China.