Bai Hua, who yielded to the ostracism and wrote a letter of self-criticism addressed to Jiefangjun Bao and Wenyibao (Literary Gazette), in which he apologized for a "lack of balance" in "Bitter Love" and for failing to recognize the power of the party and the people to overcome obstacles in Chinese society, was invited by the Ministry of Culture to participate in a Shanghai conference on film scripts in January 1983.
Bai Hua, who yielded to the ostracism and wrote a letter of self-criticism addressed to Jiefangjun Bao and Wenyibao (Literary Gazette), in which he apologized for a "lack of balance" in "Bitter Love" and for failing to recognize the power of the party and the people to overcome obstacles in Chinese society, was invited by the Ministry of Culture to participate in a Shanghai conference on film scripts in January 1983.