Xi Xi enjoyed travelling, and she had been to countries such as those in Eastern Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and, most frequently, mainland China. These places had given much inspiration to her writing. In 1983, "United Daily News" published Xi Xi's "A Woman Like Me" (像我這樣的一個女子), a collection of short stories written between 1976 and 1982, and it was the first time her works were introduced to Taiwan people. It won Xi Xi the Recommended Novella Prize, the highest honor in the United Daily News 8th Novel Prize.