 "Round Eyes" derives its title from the Chinese nickname for Westerners.While the name refers directly to the sunglasses foreigners wear and the lack of the epicanthic fold in many Europeans, it is also an innuendo, metaphorically, at the naiveté of the outsiders who only through a haze saw the nation they were living in.Most westerners lived lavishly, interacted only with one another and fled when a lack of provisions and political uprising began.