Liu Manqing’s friends and relatives were so surprised to hear that she was traveling to Tibet that they all tried to persuade her to stay, as they believed that she would not return from her trip. However, they were unable to change her mind. She told to them that she would return by way of Yunnan after arriving in Xikang, but that whether or not she would go to Tibet was uncertain.

Source：A Mission to Xikang and Tibet, Commercial Press, 1933