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Tong Jun's article from the Wuhan Conference was printed in 2016 in the second volume of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (pp. 97-104) which can be read in full there. In it she described discovering a book that recounted a woman's life story from a Confucian family written almost a hundred years before, describing how Confucian devaluation of women affected Chinese women's sexual and gender identities. Her article considered the questions, “What is strange in this story is the question of where do these mothers come from who raise other nameless women? Are men also raised by these nameless creatures?” She then described what she learned from her clinical observation about how a new young generation of Chinese women build their feminine identity nowadays. She concluded:
What my patient Y taught me was that as a generation of only children, the development of gender identity and feminine identity was impaired. Their mothers and grandmothers did not leave them a healthy legacy. Their ancestors' deficiency requires that they have to start from the beginning, to find a new path to dignity as women. (p 104)
The two discussions that follow consider Tong Jun's article and that of Wang Qian together.