In her first month in Lhasa, Liu Manqing was not permitted to meet the Dalai Lama. However, she threatened to return to Nanjing at the end of March, saying that the opportunity of the Central Government and the Tibetan local government reaching an agreement would be lost if the Dalai Lama refused to meet with her. This time, she received a prompt reply from the Dalai Lama.Laden La conspired with the anglophiles to prevent her from returning to the inland if they should fail to prevent her from meeting the Dalai Lama.

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